Salutation Inn

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW ST NICHOLAS STREET 646-1/20/608 (North East side) 11/08/52 Salutation Inn

GV II

Public house. C16 and mid C18, heavily restored and altered late C19 and mid C20. Timber framing, now roughcast, and red brick, with plain tile roofs and various stacks. Gables have C19 traceried bargeboards. EXTERIOR: C16 section, to north, 2 storeys plus cellars and attics; 4 x 4 windows, L-plan. Facing gable to St Nicholas Street has a jettied first floor with a 3-light cross casement with pointed arched lights and leaded glazing. Below, to left, a beaded 6-panel door and to right, a 4-light window with wooden mullions. Right return has a coped side wall stack and irregular fenestration with 2 first floor casements towards the right and above, 2 C19 gabled dormers. Below, 3 windows, the central one with plank shutters. Gable to right has a C20 brick underbuild and a single window on each floor. Rear, fronting Maid Marian Way, has 2 casements flanked to left by a large side wall stack and to right by a gable with a wooden oriel window. C20 brick underbuild with 2 windows and door. C18 section, fronting St Nicholas Street, has dentillated brick eaves, coped gables, and 2 brick gable stacks. 3 storeys; 3 window range, with a small central window flanked by a wooden cross casement to right and a reglazed window to left, all segment-headed. Above, 3 renewed casements, and below, a segment-headed board door flanked by large glazing bar sashes. To left, a lower addition, 2 storeys, single windows. INTERIOR has fragments of timber framing and is said to contain a medieval roof. There are rock cut cellars at 2 levels, with thrawls. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 235; Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 8-9).

Listing NGR: SK5709239644