Hine House

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE REGENT STREET 646-1/19/529 (South West side) 12/07/72 No.25 Hine House (Formerly Listed as: REGENT STREET No.25)

GV II

House and drawing office, now offices. 1844-48. By TC Hine of Nottingham for himself. Red brick, with ashlar basement and dressings and blue brick diaper work, with patterned tile roofs and a truncated side wall stack. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: sloping corner site. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 3 x 3 bays. Openings in various Gothic patterns, with ashlar surrounds and tracery. To left, a coped major gable with a 2 storey bay window rising from the basement. 4 shouldered lights below, 4 traceried lights above. Above, a cusped triple lancet, and above again, a similar double lancet. To right, recessed in the return angle, a square tower porch with a pyramidal roof. At basement level, stone steps with renewed balustrade, and under the steps, a Tudor arched doorway with balustrades. Moulded 4-centred arched door with shafts to ground floor, and above it, a single lancet on each floor, the upper one set in a recessed panel. Right return has a lancet to the ground floor, and a trefoil above. To right again, integral drawing office, single storey plus basement, with coped gables. Main gable, facing Regent Street, has a square bay window rising from the basement, with a traceried triple light to the basement and a traceried 3-light window above. To right, an angle buttress. Right return, to Oxford Street, has buttresses and a shouldered doorway to left. To right, a bay window rising from the basement, with 3 shouldered lights on each floor. INTERIOR has plain Gothic features, with altered main stair and triple pointed arches with double shafts. Left room has cornice and panelled Gothic door. Drawing office has an open common rafter roof with collars and wooden corbels. Pointed arched marble fireplace with tile surround and wooden case, possibly renewed. This building was the home and workplace of TC Hine from 1848 till his death in 1899. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 3-4).

Listing NGR: SK5669539849