Former Cattle Market Building And Attached Gates

MANSFIELD

SK5360 NOTTINGHAM ROAD 924-1/7/75 (East side) 06/01/89 No.15 Former cattle market building and attached gates (Formerly Listed as: NOTTINGHAM ROAD No.15 Cattle Market Building and attached gates)

GV II

Former cattle market building and attached gates. Dated 1877. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs with decorative ridge tiles. Single panelled brick ridge stack. Chamfered rock-faced stone plinth, moulded brick eaves. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Central block with recessed centre flanked by gabled and hipped wings. In the centre, two 2-light mullioned windows, the left one without its mullion. Below, a lean-to porch between the wings, with a doorway to left with double doors, and 2 small square windows to right. Gabled left wing has a large 3-light cross mullion window with decorative relieving arch. To its left, a lean-to porch with single window, and plank door under a hood. Left return has 2 small windows. Hipped right wing has a hipped oriel window on corbels, with a 3-light mullion window. Below, a drinking fountain with a single lancet above, and to right, a plank door with shouldered arch. Right return, to Nottingham Road, has projecting rock-faced stone ground floor. To right, a round corner tower with machicolated eaves and conical roof topped with a wind vane. Ground floor has central 3-light stone cross casement flanked to right by a small 2-light window and to left by a panelled door with door and shouldered ashlar surround. Attached to the north-west corner, a pair of chamfered square ashlar gate piers with chamfered octagonal caps and a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates, made by The Meadow Foundry Co Ltd, Mansfield. Attached gates listed 10.1.89. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 171).

Listing NGR: SK5391560619