Memorial Nurses' Home

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE KING CHARLES STREET 646-1/19/305 (West side) Memorial Nurses' Home

GV II

Nurses' home. 1921-23. By Evans, Cartwright & Woollett of Nottingham. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped green slate mansard roofs. 6 coped brick side wall stacks. Stripped Classical style. Plinth, main cornice, coped parapet forming a balcony to the upper attics. Windows are mainly paired glazing bar sashes with slightly segmental rubbed brick heads, burnt brick surrounds, and keystones. Attics have similar, smaller windows with flat heads. 3 storeys plus attics; 15 bays, arranged 1:5:3:5:1. Single range, with symmetrical facade with projecting centre and end bays. Central portico, 3 storeys, 3 bays, with giant Ionic columns in antis, and bronze lettering to the frieze reading "1914 in remembrance 1918". Under the portico, 3 cross framed French windows. Above, 4 windows flanked by wreaths, under a low pitched gable with a bronze crest and crossed flags. Upper attic has 3 windows. On each side, single windows, then 3 pairs of windows to each floor and attics. End bays are defined by giant pilasters, with a single pair of windows. At the rear, a central portico, 2 storeys, with double Ionic columns and open pediment. On each side, regular fenestration, with double windows in the end bays. At the east end, a flat roofed projection, single storey, with parapet with tile detail.

Listing NGR: SK5685239592