Norris Homes

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE BERRIDGE ROAD EAST 646-1/4/32 (North side) 22/03/88 Norris Homes

GV II

Formerly known as: Norris Ladies Home BERRIDGE ROAD EAST. Row of 8 almshouses. 1892-93. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for Mary Smith Norris in memory of her brother John. Restored 1991. Red brick, with ashlar, blue brick and terracotta dressings. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs, with terracotta finials and 10 tall, elaborately moulded brick stacks. EXTERIOR: deep blue brick chamfered plinth, moulded sill and lintel bands to ground floor, 2 blue brick bands above. Windows are wooden framed cross casements with leaded glazing. 2 storeys; 16 window range. U-plan. Symmetrical front, with a recessed centre under 6 gables, flanked by projecting hipped wings. In the centre, 2 windows, 3-lights, flanked by buttressed triangular porches, each with 2 plank doors with ogee heads. Beyond, 2 windows, then hipped half-porches in the return angles. Above, two 2-light windows in each bay, and gables with patterned tile hanging. Hipped wings have a canted hipped bay window, 1:2:1 lights, and above, a 3-light window. Left corner has a bell under a gabled canopy. Right return has a central pent roofed wooden porch, flanked to right by a window and to left by an inscribed plaque with side columns. Over the porch, a portrait bust in an octagonal surround, to Mary Smith Norris, 1827-1909, flanked by small window. To right, a round turret with swept conical roof and weathercock. At the rear, lean-to privies attached by side walls, and 4 hipped through-eaves dormers. INTERIOR is said to retain original doors and staircases, but not fireplaces. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 10).

Listing NGR: SK5660541804