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The term 'listing' describes one legal procedure which helps English Heritage to protect the best of our architectural heritage.

A building's long-term interests are often best served by putting it to good use, even if it cannot be the original purpose. Listing ensures that the architectural and historic interest of the building is carefully considered before any alterations are agreed.

The older and rarer a building is, the more likely it is to be listed. All buildings built before 1700 which survive in “original condition” are listed, as are most built between 1700 and 1840. After that date, the criteria become tighter, so buildings less than 30 years old are rarely listed, unless they are of outstanding quality and under threat

Listed buildings are graded to show their relative importance: Grade I, of exceptional interest, Grade II* are particularly important, Grade II are of special interest, warranting preservation

Consent is required from the Borough Council for demolition of whole or part of a listed building, and for any works of alteration, extension, repainting or repair which would affect its special interest.

Below is a list of the current Listed Buildings in the area, followed by some individual details and photographs. If there are further local buildings that you would like to see "listed" then please send us an e-mail with your suggestion(s) along with your reasons for wanting to protect the building.

Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest and Grade II buildings are worthy of preservation with the most important ones being classed as Grade II*. Scheduled Ancient Monuments, are shown with a ^#.

ATTENBOROUGH

BEESTON

CHILWELL

ANGLO-SCOTIAN MILLS, BLOCK OCCUPIED BY ARIEL PRESSINGS LIMITED, WOLLATON ROAD (east side)

Block occupied by Ariel Pressings Ltd Lace and shawl factory warehouse. 1892. By J Huckerby for F Wilkinson. Crenellated Gothic style. Brick with slate roof. White & blue brick and ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth, brick bands, crenellated parapet. White brick crosslets. This building was subsequently used as a tenement lace factory, and now private apartments.

LACE AND SHAWL FACTORY, PRINTING ROOM, WAITING ROOM & GATEWAY, ALBION STREET (north side)

Lace and shawl factory, printing room, waiting room and gateway at Anglo-Scotian Mills, Nottingham Saw & Tool Co., Semblec Ltd.,

1886, 1892 and 1893. By J. Huckerby for F. Wilkinson. Brick with slate, asbestos, felt & concrete tile roofs. Ashlar & white brick dressings. Chamfered dentillated eaves. Crenellated towers. White brick crosslets & dressings.

42 BROADGATE (east side)

House. 1820 with slight alterations c.1860. Brick & stucco with a shallow pitched slate roof. 2 stucco gable stacks. Interior contains many original features.

BROADGATE HOUSE, 72 BROADGATE

House, now Headquarters of The East Midlands Universities Air Squadron, c1840 altered & extended c1855. Brick & painted stucco. Tower was added as a rooftop observatory. Interior contains single flight return staircase with ornate iron balustrade.

THE GRANGE, CHILWELL ROAD (south east side)

House, now a police station. c.1820. Extended mid C19. Brick, colourwashed, with hipped slate roof. Stone plinth, first floor band, panelled eaves & parapet. Formerly used as a homeless persons hostel.

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET (west side)

Parish church. Chancel C15, remainder rebuilt 1842 by Scott and Moffatt. Enlarged 1876 by C. H. Thornton. Organ chamber 1876. Vestry 1897. C15 Perpendicular style. Pecked ashlar. Gabled & lean-to slate and patterned tile roofs. Moulded plinth and sill band. Moulded eaves band with bosses and masks. Crenellated parapets. Decorated ridge. C15, C17, C19 & C20 features.

CRIMEAN WAR MEMORIAL 70 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH STREET (west side)

Crimean War Memorial 1857. By D. A. Chall. Ashlar with marble tablets. Square plinth & base with moulded top edge. Textured obelisk on square corniced base with 4 inscribed tablets.

THE CROWN INN AND ADJOINING STABLES, 18 AND 20 CHURCH STREET (west side)

Public house. Early C19. Extended & altered c.1980. Brick, pebbledashed & colourwashed. Slate, pantile & clay tile roofs. Interior has front bar and snug c.1880

VILLAGE CROSS, CHURCH STREET (east side)

Village cross. C14. Re-sited & restored c.1860. Dressed stone. Square base. Tapered square shaft approx. 3 ft. high.

HOPE (BOER WAR) MEMORIAL, BROADGATE (south east side)

Hope (Boer War) Memorial 1903. By A. Marshall. Classical style. Portland stone. Lobed square base with inscribed wreathed tablet and apron to north. To south, wreathed inscribed tablet. Above, stepped lobed base carrying life-size female figure with cenotaph.

BUILDINGS D10 D6 & D34 (FIRE STATION) AT BOOTS FACTORY SITE, HUMBER ROAD SOUTH (off)

1932. By Sir E Owen Williams for The Boots Company. Building D10 is noteworthy for the innovative use of structural reinforced concrete & glass cladding. It is the earliest use of such a structural system in a large-scale industrial building in England. D6 is notable for the use of an external concrete frame to support both the roof and the cantilevered wings. A similar principal is used at D34 Boots' Fire Station and also at the Empire Pool, Wembley, 1936.

MEADOW ROAD BRIDGE, MEADOW ROAD

Canal overbridge. c.1792. For the Trent Navigation Co. Brick, partly rendered, with ashlar parapet. Rusticated string course. Single stilted asymmetrical arch over canal and towpath. This bridge spans the Beeston Cut built by the Trent Navigation Co. in connection with Jessop's Nottingham Canal, 1792-96.

THE MANOR HOUSE BOUNDARY WALL AND WASH HOUSE, 2 AND 2A MIDDLE STREET (south side)

House. Early C17. Rebuilt c.1675. East wing early C18. Brick, partly rendered & colourwashed, with C20 plain tile roof. Interior has C17 & C18 features. Adjoining early C19 wash-house

WAR MEMORIAL CROSS, MIDDLE STREET (south side)

War Memorial Cross. c.1920. Portland stone. Octagonal plinth of 3 steps, the top step ornamented. Iron railing. Square plinth with recessed panels, 3 of them inscribed. Celtic cross with panelled tapered square shaft. Additional inscriptions, 1945.

DAGFA HOUSE SCHOOL, SALTHOUSE LANE (west side)

House, now a school. Early C19. Brick, stucco & colourwash. Gabled slate roofs. Ashlar plinth, deep eaves. Interior with C19 & Gothic Revival style features

BEESTON RAILWAY STATION AND ATTACHED WOODEN SHELTER, AND WOODEN PLATFORM SHELTER TO SOUTH EAST, STATION ROAD (south west side)

Railway Station & attached wooden shelter. 1847. Canopy late C19. For the Midland Railway. White brick. Steep pitched slate roof with pierced bargeboards. Attached to south-west long wooden platform shelter. 1848. Wood and cast iron. Wooden Platform Shelter to south-east. 1848 Wood & cast iron. All originally constructed at Southwell Station, transferred here in 1871.

TOWPATH FOOTBRIDGE

Towpath footbridge c.1792. Ashlar. Chamfered square opening. Chamfered sill band. Battered parapet wall. This bridge was probably built at the same time as the Beeston Cut by the Trent Navigation Co.

THE OLD COTTAGE, 2 WEST END (north side)

House. Late C17. Alterations & additions late C19 & mid C20. Rendered & colourwashed. Steep pitched slate & plain tile roofs. Interior has a chamfered span beam and early C19 hob grate.

OLD MANOR HOUSE AND STABLES, 3 WEST END (south side)

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17. Refenestrated late C18. Additions & alterations late C19 & mid C20. Brick, rendered & colourwashed. C20 plain tile roof. Stables. c.1830 and mid C19. Brick with slate roof.

THE ELMS AND ADJOINING WATER PUMP AND STABLES, 4 WEST END (north side)

House. Early C19. Brick, rough cast, with hipped slate roof. Rendered plinth. Off-centre recessed bay contains timber-cased lead pump with stone trough. Stables. Early C19. Brick with pantile roof. Plain eaves.

WEST END HOUSE, 6 WEST END (north side)

House. Mid C17. Altered early C19. Brick, coursed rubble & timber framing. Rendered & colourwashed. Gabled slate roofs. Interior has substantial remains of stud wall carried on chamfered bressummers & inserted post. Was used as a school in the early C20.

NATIONAL SHELL FILLING FACTORY MEMORIAL, CHETWYND ROAD, Chilwell

35 HALLAMS LANE (south side), Chilwell

House, 1936-7 by H Raymond Myerscough-Walker for Mr H G T Grainger. Rendered brick, with partly cantilevered concrete floor slabs & felted concrete flat roofs. Brick internal walls. What makes this house exceptional, is the lavishness of its internal fixtures and remarkably complete state of preservation.

FERNDALE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING PUMP AND STABLE, 186 HIGH ROAD (north side), Chilwell

House, stable and pump. c.1880. Brick, rendered, with slate roof. Adjoining timber cased lead pump has octagonal stone trough. Adjoining single storey stable range at rear.

RED LION COTTAGE, 228 HIGH ROAD (north side), Chilwell

Public house, now a house. Mid C18 & C19. Brick with slate roof.

STONE CROFT, 230 HIGH ROAD (north side), Chilwell

House. Early C17. Dressed stone with traces of timber framing, plain & pantile roofs.

THE MEADS, 265 HIGH ROAD, Chilwell

Farmhouse c1711, alterations c1910. Built for Sir T W Hunloke. Brick with plain tile roofs, brick coped gables & kneelers. Interior contains a very fine early C18 staircase, large inglenook, chamfered beams original doors and a corn bin in the attic.