Houses of Rest for Miners is a Grade II listed building in the Ashfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1988. Houses.
Houses of Rest for Miners
- WRENN ID
- gilded-dormer-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashfield
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1988
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Houses of Rest for Miners, Park Drive
- OS grid reference
- SK 535 487
- Coordinates
- 53.03324, -1.20278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Houses of Rest for Miners, built in 1925, were designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Sir Julien Cahn. This single-storey building is constructed of brick with plain tile and leaded hipped and gabled roofs, featuring ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, a stone plinth, string courses, and modillioned eaves. It has six coped ridge stacks and consists of three linked blocks with cross gables, each containing three bays, with the side wings splayed.
The windows are a mix of single and triple glazing bar sashes, topped with keystoned flat arched heads. The central block features a projecting pedimented central bay that includes a pedimented framed blank panel with a crest, flanked by single sashes. Further along, there are larger single sashes and round-headed doorways. Above this central section is an octagonal cupola with a stepped copper dome, clock, and finial.
Each flanking wing has a projecting central bay with two sashes and a pediment containing a round window above, followed by single sashes and doorways, with small casements beyond. Each end of the building has a single sash window. The rear elevations also feature a projecting central pedimented bay with two sashes, flanked by flat-roofed additions, each with a door and single casements.
Local climate
Houses of Rest for Miners sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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