HERITAGE STATEMENT

114 Raleigh Street

Nottingham

PREPARED BY: Dr Ramona Usher Conservation

ON BEHALF OF: Inest Living Ltd.

March 2021

Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street,

Project Reference: RU172/02

Document Prepared by: Ramona Usher BA (Hons) PgDip MSc PhD IHBC

Revision Reason for Update Document Updated V2 Proposals update 18th March 2021 V3 Proposals update 25th March 2021

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE OF STUDY ...... 2 2. PLANNING BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN FRAMEWORK ...... 3 3. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY ...... 10 4. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE ...... 12 5. SUMMARY OF HERITAGE ASSETS ...... 16 6. HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ...... 18 7. CONCLUSION ...... 21 SOURCES ...... 22 MAPS ...... 23 PLATES ...... 26 APPENDIX 1 - LIST DESCRIPTIONS ...... 30

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 1. INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE OF STUDY

1.1 This heritage assessment of 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham has been researched and prepared by Ramona Usher BA MSc PgDip PhD IHBC (Dr Ramona Usher Conservation) on behalf of Inest Living Ltd. (the applicant).

1.2 The assessment examines the proposed development of the study site, an unlisted building located in the Arboretum Conservation Area. The study site is currently vacant on all floors. The proposed development involves the demolition of the extant structures on the site, and their replacement with a new structure, comprising 16 apartments. The proposal will be four storeys to the front, and one and a half to the rear, set over the lower ground floor.

1.3 Information regarding Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments, Registered Historic Parks or Gardens, Registered Battlefields and World Heritage Sites was obtained from Historic ’s National Heritage List for England. Information on Conservation Areas was obtained from .

1.4 The assessment incorporates published and unpublished material, and charts historic land- use through a map regression exercise.

1.5 This study has been prepared in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (2019) and provides an assessment of the significance of heritage assets on the site and its vicinity. As a result, the assessment enables relevant parties to identify and assess the impact of the proposed development.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 2. PLANNING BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN FRAMEWORK

2.1 In considering any planning application for development, the local planning authority will be guided by current legislation, the policy framework set by government planning policy, by current Local Plan policy and by other material considerations.

2.2 Current Legislation 2.2.1 The applicable legislative framework is summarised as follows: • Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (P(LBCA)) Act 1990

2.2.2 The P(LBCA) Act provides for the protection of Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas, and is largely expressed in the planning process through policies in regional and local planning guidance.

2.2.3 The P(LBCA) Act is the primary legislative instrument addressing the treatment of Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas through the planning process.

2.2.4 Section 66 of the 1990 Act states that ‘...in considering whether to grant planning permission for development which affects a listed building or its setting, the local planning authority or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State shall have special regard to the desirability of preserving the building or its setting or any features of special architectural or historic interest which it possesses.’

2.2.5 Section 72 then adds that ‘...with respect to any buildings or other land in a conservation area, of any powers under any of the provisions mentioned in subsection (2), special attention shall be paid to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of that area.’

2.2.6 As far as Section 72 is concerned, it has previously been established by the Courts that development which does not detract from the character or appearance of a conservation area is deemed to be in accordance with the legislation. In other words, there is no statutory requirement to actively ‘enhance’.

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2.3 National Planning Policy Framework 2.3.1 In March 2012, the Government published the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The Government issued the revised Framework in July 2018 and February 2019.

2.3.2 Section 16 of the NPPF, entitled Conserving and enhancing the historic environment, provides guidance for planning authorities, property owners, developers and others on the conservation and investigation of heritage assets. Overall, the objectives of Section 16 of the NPPF can be summarised as seeking the: • Delivery of sustainable development • Understanding the wider social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits brought by the conservation of the historic environment, and • Conservation of England's heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance.

2.3.3 Section 16 of the NPPF recognises that intelligently managed change may sometimes be necessary if heritage assets are to be maintained for the long term. Paragraph 189 states that planning decisions should be based on the significance of the heritage asset, and that the level of detail supplied by an applicant should be proportionate to the importance of the asset and should be no more than sufficient to review the potential impact of the proposal upon the significance of that asset.

2.3.4 A Heritage Asset is defined in Annex 2 of the NPPF as: a building, monument, site, place, area or landscape positively identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, because of its heritage interest. They include designated heritage assets (as defined in the NPPF) and assets identified by the local planning authority during the process of decision-making or through the plan-making process.

2.3.5 A Designated Heritage Asset comprises a World Heritage Site, Scheduled Monument, Listed Building, Protected Wreck Site, Registered Park and Garden, Registered Battlefield or Conservation Area.

2.3.6 Significance is defined as: The value of a heritage asset to this and future generations because of its heritage interest. This interest may be archaeological, architectural, artistic

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or historic. Significance derives not only from a heritage asset’s physical presence, but also from its setting.

2.3.7 In short, government policy provides a framework which: • Protects nationally important designated Heritage Assets (which include World Heritage Sites, Scheduled Ancient Monuments, Listed Buildings, Protected Wreck Sites, Registered Parks and Gardens, Registered Battlefields or Conservation Areas) • Protects the settings of such designations

2.4 Local Planning Policy 2.4.1 Nottingham City Council’s Development Plan comprises: Policy 10: Design and Enhancing Local Identity 1. All new development should be designed to: a) make a positive contribution to the public realm and sense of place; b) create an attractive, safe, inclusive and healthy environment; c) reinforce valued local characteristics; d) be adaptable to meet changing needs of occupiers and the effects of climate change; and e) reflect the need to reduce the dominance of motor vehicles.

2. Development will be assessed in terms of its treatment of the following elements: a) structure, texture and grain, including street patterns, plot sizes, orientation and positioning of buildings and the layout of spaces; b) permeability and legibility to provide for clear and easy movement through and within new development areas; c) density and mix; d) massing, scale and proportion; e) materials, architectural style and detailing; f) impact on the amenity of nearby residents or occupiers; g) the ground conditions of the site, including that arising from land instability or contamination, together with the mitigation/remediation proposed or required; h) incorporation of features to reduce opportunities for crime and the fear of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour, and promotion of safer living environments;

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i) the potential impact on important views and vistas, including of townscape, landscape, and other individual landmarks, and the potential to create new views; and j) setting of heritage assets.

3. All development proposals, and in particular proposals of 10 or more homes, will be expected to perform highly when assessed against best practice guidance and standards for design, sustainability, and place making, as set out in part 2 Local Plans.

4. Development must have regard to the local context including valued landscape/ townscape characteristics, and be designed in a way that conserves locally and nationally important heritage assets and preserves or enhances their settings.

5. Outside of settlements, new development should protect, conserve or where appropriate, enhance landscape character. Proposals will be assessed with reference to the Greater Nottingham Landscape Character Assessment.

Policy 11: The Historic Environment 1. Proposals and initiatives will be supported where the historic environment and heritage assets and their settings are conserved and/or enhanced in line with their interest and significance. Planning decisions will have regard to the contribution heritage assets can have to the delivery of wider social, cultural, economic and environmental objectives.

2. Elements of the historic environment which contribute towards the unique identity of areas and help create a sense of place will be conserved and, where possible, enhanced, with further detail set out in part 2 Local Plans. Elements of particular importance include: a) the industrial and commercial heritage such as the textile and coalmining heritage and the various canals; b) the literary heritage associated with DH Lawrence, Lord Byron and Alan Sillitoe; c) Registered Parks and Gardens and important historic landscape features such as Sherwood Forest, ancient or mature woodland and ridge and furrow field patterns; d) historic features within such as the medieval street patterns, the networks of caves under the City Centre, the Park Estate and ; and

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e) prominent Listed Buildings and Scheduled Monuments with a wider visual and economic benefit such as , Hall, Newstead Abbey, Bennerley Viaduct and buildings D6 and D10 on the Boots campus.

3. A variety of approaches will be used to assist in the protection and enjoyment of the historic environment including: a) the use of appraisals and management plans of existing and potential Conservation Areas; b) considering the use of Article 4 directions; c) working with partners, owners and developers to identify ways to positively manage and make better use of historic assets; d) considering improvements to the public realm and the setting of heritage assets within it; e) ensuring that information about the significance of the historic environment is publicly available; f) where there is a loss in whole or in part to the significance of an identified historic asset then evidence should be recorded of its importance; and g) considering the need for the preparation of local evidence or plans.

4. Particular attention will be given to heritage assets at risk of harm or loss of significance, or where a number of heritage assets have significance as a group or give context to a wider area.

The Land and Planning Policy Document 2.4.2 The Land and Planning Policy Document (Part 1 Local Plan) was formally adopted on 13 January 2020. This LAPP contains both Development Management planning policies and site specific land allocations. It provides a level of certainty about which areas will be developed or protected in the future and for what purpose. It forms Part 2 of new Local Plan along with the adopted Core Strategy, which is Part 1 of the Local Plan and forms the overarching, strategic document. The following policy relates to heritage asserts:

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Policy HE1: Proposals Affecting Designated and Non-Designated Heritage Assets Development proposals affecting heritage assets and/or their settings will be supported where they conserve or enhance the historic environment in line with their interest and significance. Where proposals could affect a heritage asset and/or its setting, the applicant will be expected to describe the asset’s significance (including the contribution made by its setting) in a proportionate level of detail to the asset’s significance that allows the impact of the proposals on its significance to be sufficiently understood.

Designated Heritage Assets Planning permission will be refused where development proposals lead to substantial harm to or total loss of significance of a designated heritage asset, unless it can be demonstrated that the substantial harm or loss* is necessary to achieve substantial public benefits that outweigh that harm or loss, or all of the following apply: a) no viable use of the heritage asset itself can be found in the medium term through appropriate marketing that will enable its conservation; and b) the nature of the heritage asset prevents all reasonable uses of the site; and c) conservation by grant-funding or some form of charitable or public ownership is demonstrably not possible; and d) the harm or loss is outweighed by the benefit of bringing the site back into use. (*substantial harm or loss to Grade II listed buildings or Grade II registered parks or gardens should be exceptional and wholly exceptional to assets of the highest significance). Where a development proposal would result in less than substantial harm, permission will only be granted where the public benefits, including securing its optimum viable use, outweigh the harm.

Non-Designated Heritage Assets 5. Where development affects a non-designated heritage asset or would result in its demolition or loss, a balanced judgment on the acceptability of the proposal will be made, having regard to the scale of any harm (substantial or less than substantial) or loss and the significance of the heritage asset. All Heritage Assets 6. Proposals affecting any heritage asset and/or its setting will be considered against the following criteria, where relevant:

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a) the significance of the asset; b) whether the proposals would be sympathetic to the character and appearance of the asset and any feature of special historic, architectural, artistic and archaeological interest that it possesses; c) whether the proposals would preserve and, where possible, enhance the character or appearance of a heritage asset by virtue of siting, scale, urban grain, building form, massing, height, materials and quality of detail; d) whether the proposals would respect their relationship with the historic street pattern, topography, urban spaces, gardens, landscape, views and landmarks; e) whether the proposals would demonstrate high standards of design appropriate to the historic environment; f) whether the proposals would contribute to the long-term maintenance and management of the asset; g) whether the proposals would appropriately provide for ‘in-situ’ preservation, or investigation and recording of archaeology, based upon significance; h) whether the proposals would bring a vacant heritage asset back into use and to what degree the proposed use would be viable and compatible with the significance of the asset; and i) whether it can be demonstrated that the new development will proceed after the loss has occurred.

2.5 Therefore, in considering the heritage implications of any application for listed building consent and planning permission, the local planning authority will be guided by the Aligned Core Strategy, Local Plan Policies and government legislation, policy and guidance as outlined above.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 3. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

3.1 The following sources of information have been used to identify the designated heritage assets within the locality: • relevant designation records from Historic England’s Heritage List for England; • information on Conservation Areas was obtained from Nottingham City Council’s website.

3.2 A site visit was undertaken on 30th January 2021 to inspect the site and assess its relationship with any other heritage assets within the vicinity of the site.

3.3 Historic documentary material was sourced from Records Office and Nottingham Local Studies Library where open and accessible given Covid-19 restrictions.

3.4 The most recent guidance produced by Historic England (Historic Environment Good Practice Advice Planning Note 3: The Setting of Heritage Assets), published December 2017, recognises that whilst setting is not a heritage asset, elements of a setting ‘may make a positive or negative contribution to the significance of an asset, may affect the ability to appreciate that significance or may be neutral’. This guidance also notes that the contribution of setting to the significance of a heritage asset is often expressed by reference to visual considerations, although the importance of setting lies in what it contributes to the significance of the heritage asset, and this can be influenced by a number of other factors.

3.5 In order to assess the contribution made by setting to the significance of a heritage asset, and the implications of new developments, the guidance recommends that a systematic and staged approach to assessment should be adopted, namely: (i) identify which heritage assets and their settings are affected; (ii) assess the degree to which these settings and views make a contribution to the significance of the heritage asset(s) or allow significance to be appreciated; (iii) assess the effects of the proposed development, whether beneficial or harmful, on the significance or on the ability to appreciate it; (iv) explore ways to maximise enhancement and avoid or minimise harm; (v) make and document the decision and monitor outcomes.

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3.6 This report therefore follows steps (i) and (ii) to identify the local heritage assets and their settings and then makes an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed development having regard to steps (iii) and (iv).

3.7 In order to understand the nature, extent and level of significance four types of heritage values are considered, as identified in Conservation Principles (English Heritage 2008): aesthetic, communal, historic and evidential. Significance results from a combination of any, some, or all of the values.

3.8 Historic England defines ‘evidential value’ ‘from the potential of a place to yield evidence about past human activity’ and ‘historical value’ ‘from the ways in which past people, events and aspects of life can be connected through a place to the present’. ‘Historical value’ tends to be ‘illustrative’ or ‘associative’: ‘illustrative value’ has ‘the power to aid interpretation of the past through making connections with, and providing insights into, past communities and their activities through shared experience of a place.

3.9 The illustrative value of places tends to be greater if they incorporate the first, or only surviving, example of an innovation of consequence, whether related to design, technology or social organisation’ (2008, p. 28-29).

3.10 ‘Aesthetic value’ ‘derives from the ways in which people draw sensory and intellectual stimulation from a place’ and ‘communal value’ from ‘the meanings of a place for the people who relate to it, or for whom it figures in their collective experience or memory’ (ibid).

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 4. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE SITE

Historic development - The Arboretum Conservation Area 4.1 The historical development of The Arboretum Conservation Area, particularly the vicinity of the study site, is summarised here from the 2009 Character Appraisal and Management

Plan. The Area is a product of the expansion of Nottingham in the second half of the 19th century and is an interesting example of early speculative development responding to the opportunities presented by the enclosure of the Sandfield, one of the three large open fields to the north of the medieval town.

4.2 Development within the area beyond the Road character area of the Conservation Area was only possible following the enclosure of the open fields. The private estates and the Corporation who owned the open fields were reluctant to release it for development thus restricting the outward expansion of the town. However following the

reform of municipal government in the mid-19th century, the new Corporation was able to obtain approval for the enclosure of the open fields through the 1845 Nottingham Enclosure Act that subsequently enabled the town to expand.

4.3 Staveley and Wood’s map of 1831 (not reproduced here) shows that prior to the enclosure most of the area was made up of open fields, sub-divided into narrow strips and crossed by a number of field roads, such as Ling Dale (Waverley Street) and Larkdale, leading up to the Forest escarpment. Sanderson’s map of 1835 (Map 1) also shows a number of buildings that still survive, in particular the mill house at 87a Forest Road, a complex of farm buildings that now form the Vernon Arms public house and Mount Hooton Terrace, thought to have been built as officers’ quarters when soldiers were stationed on the Forest.

4.4 The impact and pattern of the first post-enclosure development is shown on Salmon’s map of 1862 (not reproduced here). The Enclosure Commissioners laid out a basic street pattern, generally following the original field roads, and this was added to as other streets were laid out as various parcels of land were developed. The map also shows the spread of development in a westerly direction from North Sherwood Street and the speculative ‘parcel by parcel’ manner of the development, resulting in a variety of building types and styles as each parcel of land was developed. In enclosing the open fields it had been

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intended to provide land for cheaper housing to relieve the overcrowding and slum conditions in the town, however due to high building costs this early development was high quality middle class housing, much of which still survives today and gives the Area its distinctive character.

4.5 Regency-style, semi detached, villas were built along Forest Road East, overlooking the Church Cemetery, and Addison Street; whereas larger three storey Victorian town houses were built with their backs to Colville Street to take advantage of the southerly view overlooking the Arboretum Approach. The incremental nature of this speculative development can be seen where the parcel of land between Newstead Grove and Annesley Grove was fully developed, while the adjacent parcel to the south, fronting Peel Street, remained undeveloped.

4.6 In the west part of the Conservation Area development alongside Waverley Street (known then as Mount Vernon Road) was generally confined to large villas such as nos. 6 & 8 on the corner with Raleigh Street; Waverley House on the corner with Burns Street and Arthur Street and Gedling Grove.

4.7 Salmon’s map shows the recently laid out Arboretum park, the centre-piece of the Conservation Area. The Arboretum extends some 7 ha (17 acres) between Waverley Street and North Sherwood Street and was laid out on land set aside by the Enclosure Commissioners to compensate for the loss of the open fields. The Arboretum was the first public park in Nottingham and was laid out by Nottingham Town Council to a design by Samuel Curtis of London in a naturalistic style based on winding paths, sweeping lawns and the planting of specimen trees. The Arboretum was originally intended to be a place of education and recreation ‘for (the) benefit and recreation of (Nottingham’s) inhabitants’ according to the brass tablet fixed to the centre of the West Lodge.

4.8 The 1881 Ordnance Survey (Map 2) shows the area had been almost fully developed for housing, although this second phase of development brings a noticeable change in house types and style with the introduction of more terraced housing and an increasingly Gothic influence in the architecture of the buildings. As well as housing, the development of the School of Art, the Nottingham High School for Boys and the All Saints Church complex brought major institutional uses into what had been a primarily residential area.

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4.9 Whilst larger villas continued to be built along Forest Road, overlooking the Forest, Raleigh Street and Portland Road, the style of development in this second phase was typified by the developments of terraced housing along Burns Street, in a distinctly Gothic style, and the smaller terraced developments built at a right angle to the street, such as at Forest Grove and Tudor Grove off Colville Street, All Saints Terrace, off All Saints Street and Birkland and Clipstone Avenues off Annesley Grove.

Historic development - 114 Raleigh Street 4.10 One of the earliest maps to show the study site in detail is the 1881 Ordnance Survey (Map 2). Paired villas and detached dwellings can be seen lying on the south side of the street, set slightly back from the street. The All Saints’ Church (Grade II, NHLE ref: 1255063) complex occupies a triangular plot, located at an elevated position between All Saints’ Street and Raleigh Street. This parish church was built between 1863-64, designed in the Gothic Revival style by Hine & Evans for William Windley. It is composed of rockfaced stone and ashlar in contrasting colours, polychrome ashlar bands and dressings, with plain tile roofs, hipped and gabled.

4.11 The aforementioned 1881 map depicts the study site as comprising a set back coach house and/or warehouse. The long access road is located on the north-east periphery of the site, with stone entrance pillars, their stone caps extant. Four phases of building are shown on the map - an L-shaped range on the southern corner of the site, a large block to the north of this, and two smaller buildings on the north-west side, all connected, with no space between. The front boundary is depicted with trees, and the large expanse in the north-west part of the study site appears to have no structures or features.

4.12 The 1882 Town Plan (Map 3) shows a similar arrangement, but a feature is depicted in the centre of the open space. Given the apparent functionality of the buildings in the south- east quadrant of the study site, this feature is unlikely to have been an ornamental garden feature, and may have formed water source and/or trough for horses.

4.13 The 1901 Ordnance Survey (Map 4) shows fundamental change on the study site. Whilst the arrangement of buildings on the south-east part of the site, and the villas and church in the wider vicinity remain relatively unchanged, almost the entire north-west part of the site has been built on. The access road remains to the north of this new structure. The lack

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of a ‘villa type’ footprint (with defined front bays) indicates this was a light industrial unit/workshop. It is physically connected to the existing buildings on the study site. Map 5 (1913) shows a similar arrangement.

4.14 The study site today remains largely as depicted on those later maps. However, it appears to have been re-fronted in the mid-20th century with a brick wall, flat-topped, with a metal shutter for the vehicular access, and a side pedestrian access door. The original carriage entrance pillars survive. The buildings to the rear retain some historic features including roof trusses and beams and brickwork.

4.15 The frontage of the study site, in its present form, detracts significantly from the character and appearance of The Arboretum Conservation Area.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 5. SUMMARY OF HERITAGE ASSETS

5.1 The National Planning Policy Framework defines a ‘heritage asset’ as: ‘a building, monument, site, place, area or landscape identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, because of its heritage interest. Heritage asset includes designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning authority (including local listing)’.

5.2 The study site lies within The Arboretum Conservation Area. It was first designated in February 1983, and extended in January 1987 with the inclusion of the upper section of Mansfield Road and the east side of North Sherwood Street. This Area is currently on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register, with it condition described as ‘very bad’, its vulnerability ‘low’, and no significant change to its trend (Historic England CA Survey, 2020). Nottingham City Council published a Character Appraisal and Management Plan in 2009 for The Arboretum Conservation Area. Under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act, 1990, special attention should be paid to the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of conservation areas.

5.3 The Character Appraisal and Management Plan summarises the Conservation Area’s ‘special interest’ as follows: The preservation and enhancement of this area is of particular importance given its local historic significance in the context of the expansion of Nottingham during the 19th century following the enclosure of the open fields. The subsequent development of this area for new housing and a range of institutional uses has left a legacy of high quality buildings set around the Arboretum Park.

Because of its overall size the Conservation Area contains a number of distinct sub-areas that combine to define its essential character. These sub-areas are characterised by the primarily commercial and retail developments along Mansfield Road and North Sherwood Street; the mature, historic landscapes provided by the Arboretum itself; the large education establishments associated with the two High Schools that lie between Forest Road East and the Arboretum; the range of traditional Victorian housing, which principally sits in two distinct blocks, one between North Sherwood Street and Addison Street and a second to the west of Waverley Street; and the two distinctive, self-contained institutional

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buildings of the All Saints Church and its complex on Raleigh Street and the original Nottingham Art School on Waverley Street.

5.4 There are several listed buildings located within the wider vicinity of the study site: • War Memorial & Three Headstones at east entrance to general cemetery, Waverley Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1255249) • John Perkins House Vicarage at Church of All Saints, 16 Raleigh Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1270521) • Church Of All Saints, Raleigh Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1255063) • Community Centre & Workspace Units at Church Of All Saints, Raleigh Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1255076) • Churchyard Wall, Gateways, & Railways at Church Of All Saints, Raleigh Street. Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1254983) • All Saints workplace units at Church Of All Saints, Raleigh Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1270522) • St Mary’s House & attached wall and railings, St Mary’s House, 73 Raleigh Street, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1255060)

5.5 Two Registered Parks and Gardens lie in the vicinity of the study site: • Nottingham Arboretum, Waverley Street, Nottingham, NG7 4HF, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1001083) • General Cemetery, Grade: II (NHLE ref: 1001487)

5.6 Given the distance of a number of these designated heritage assets from the study site, the presence of intervening buildings and trees, not all of these are deemed to be affected by the proposed development on the study site, and will therefore not be considered further.

5.7 There are no other designated heritage assets (i.e. Scheduled Monuments, Registered Battlefields or World Heritage Sites) within the study site or search area.

5.8 It is therefore considered that potential impact upon the historic built environment would be restricted to development within a conservation area and within the settings of a limited number of listed buildings.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 6. HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT

6.1 The National Planning Policy Framework requires that ‘In determining applications, local planning authorities should require an applicant to describe the significance of any heritage assets affected, including any contribution made by their setting. The level of detail should be proportionate to the assets’ importance and no more than is sufficient to understand the potential impact of the proposal on their significance’ (para. 189).

6.2 The Arboretum Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan notes: ‘… almost all of the original houses in this zone survive in good order with very few later developments, and it is this concentration and uniformity of the building stock from this period that reinforces the Area’s character and appearance. However, there is a relatively small number of buildings that offers a nil or negative contribution; in particular the new warehouse and probation offices on Raleigh Street are among the poorest buildings in this zone.’ The latter sentence is a reference the study site.

6.3 Whilst the rear of the study site contains some historic fabric, this does not contribute to the street scene as it has been altered and obscured by the addition of the late 19th/early 20th century warehouse frontage. Internally the building is relatively open plan on the ground floor from front to back, and therefore it is clear that much of the original, set-back, frontage has been altered and lost.

6.4 The study site was never developed as a house or villa; it served a functional ancillary purpose. It is acknowledged the proposal, comprising a villa style development, is not historically accurate. However, this proposal takes reference from historic buildings in the vicinity, and so this deviation from the site’s historic purpose should not be seen as a falsity - the applicant seeks to enhance the character and appearance by taking appropriate local historic architectural references for the proposed design. The result is the removal of the existing building that is acknowledged in the Character Appraisal and Management Plan ‘as among [one of] the poorest buildings … [that] offers a nil or negative contribution’ to the Conservation Area.

6.5 The NPPF paragraph 200 states: ‘Local planning authorities should look for opportunities for new development within Conservation Areas and World Heritage Sites, and within the

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setting of heritage assets, to enhance or better reveal their significance. Proposals that preserve those elements of the setting that make a positive contribution to the asset (or which better reveal its significance) should be treated favourably.’

6.6 The proposed development comprises the following: - the erection of 16 apartments units to the front of the site, with a private gym on the ground floor; - the proposed development will be set over four storeys to the front, with a one and a half storey to the rear, set over the lower ground floor; - an undercroft car park, with the vehicular access located in the same position of the historic carriage access; - internal bin and cycle stores; - the repositioning of the historic entrance piers; - to the front, an enclosed garden area.

6.7 As noted earlier, the proposed design takes reference from historic buildings in the locality. There is a predominance of red brick, typical of Nottingham’s Victorian building stock, in this and the wider area. Therefore, the proposed walling materials will reflect this vernacular.

6.8 Architectural detail will comprise the decorative use of brickwork, set back in niches. The windows will mainly comprise large panes of glass, recessed with tangible reveals, adding depth to the façade. Bay windows on the side elevation will add further architectural interest.

6.9 The roof form will be steeply pitched, with a double gable on the principal front elevation, and a further gable to the set back element. This takes further reference from Victorian buildings in the vicinity, whereby front gables are a common feature.

6.10 The repositioning of the historic entrance piers is required in order to accommodate access and highway visibility. These will be carefully rebuilt as part of the proposed access.

6.11 Given the study site’s lack of contribution to the character and appearance of the Conservation Area, the proposed development offers what paragraph 200 of the NPPF

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seeks.

6.12 Therefore, the proposed development will have a positive heritage outcome, resulting in no harm to the significance, character or appearance of the Conservation Area.

6.13 The proposed development will have the added benefit of enhancing not only the Conservation Area, but also the settings and significance of listed buildings within the vicinity of the site.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham 7. CONCLUSION

7.1 The NPPF states that planning decisions should be based on the significance of heritage assets, and that the level of detail supplied by an applicant should be proportionate to the importance of the asset and should be no more than sufficient to review the potential impact of the proposal upon the significance of that asset. This report fulfils this requirement by providing an appraisal of the study site.

7.2 The proposed development, in keeping with the NPPF, seeks the optimum viable use of the building. The proposed conversion will result in no harm to the significance of The Arboretum Conservation Area, or other heritage assets in the site’s vicinity - it will enhance the character and appearance of the Conservation Area, and the settings and significance of designated heritage assets within the study site’s vicinity by removing a building that offers no positive heritage benefit or contribution.

7.3 The proposed works result in no harm to the significance of heritage assets. Consequently for the purposes of these designated heritage assets this proposal complies with the requirements of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act, the policy objectives of the NPPF, and local planning policy.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham SOURCES

DCLG, 2019. National Planning Policy Framework.

ENGLISH HERITAGE, 2008. Conservation Principles: Policies and Guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment.

HARTWELL, C., PEVSNER, N. and WILLIAMSON, E., 2020. The Buildings Of England - Nottinghamshire. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

HARWOOD, E., 2008. Pevsner Architectural Guides – Nottingham. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

HISTORIC ENGLAND GOOD PRACTICE ADVICE, 2017. GPA3: The Setting of Heritage Assets.

HISTORIC ENGLAND ADVICE NOTE, 2016. HEAN2: Making Changes to Heritage Assets.

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NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, 2009. The Arboretum Conservation Area – Character Appraisal and Management Plan. Available at: https://nottinghaminsight.org.uk/f/96135 [Accessed 25th February 2021].

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham MAPS

Map 1: Sanderson, 1835

Map 2: 1881 OS Nottinghamshire XLII.2 Surveyed 1881, published 1881.

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Map 3: 1882 OS Town Plan, 1:500.

Map 4: 1901 OS Nottinghamshire XLII.2 Revised 1899, published 1901.

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Map 5: 1913 OS Nottinghamshire XLII.2 Revised 1913, published 1915.

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham PLATES

Plate 1: 114 Raleigh Street, as viewed looking south-east

Plate 2: 114 Raleigh Street, as viewed looking south

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham

Plate 3: 114 Raleigh Street, as viewed looking north-east

Plate 4: 114 Raleigh Street, interior of frontage building

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham

Plate 5: 114 Raleigh Street, interior of rear building

Plate 6: 114 Raleigh Street, south-west elevation of rear building, as viewed looking north-east

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Plate 7: 114 Raleigh Street, rear curtilage, as viewed looking south

Plate 8: All Saints’ Church, as viewed from Raleigh Street, looking west

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham APPENDIX 1 - LIST DESCRIPTIONS

Nottingham Arboretum Heritage Category: Park and Garden Grade: II* List Entry Number: 1001083 Statutory Address: Waverley Street, Nottingham, NG7 4HF District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) Parish: Non Civil Parish National Grid Reference: SK 56776 40761 Summary A mid C19 public park designed by Samuel Curtis.

Reasons for Designation Nottingham Arboretum, opened in 1852 to a design by Samuel Curtis, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Date: the Arboretum is an early example of a municipal park-like amenity; * Design: although enhanced, the Arboretum’s design is essentially unchanged from its original layout of 1850-2; * Designer: the Arboretum’s designer Samuel Curtis was a well-known nurseryman, botanist and botanical publisher; * Historic interest: when Nottingham’s remaining open fields and meadows were enclosed in 1845 a series of places were set aside for public recreation and walks, including this park; * Structures and features: the Arboretum has numerous structures associated with its use and history, many of them listed; * Planting: the original planting has been regularly added to.

History The Enclosure Act of 1845 enclosed fields and meadows used by the burgesses or freeholders of the City of Nottingham to graze their animals. To compensate for the loss of the open space used for recreation, the Act allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks. Some 130 acres (c 54ha) made up of Queen's Walk and Queen's Walk Park (Meadow Cricket Ground), Victoria Park, Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks, St Ann's Hill Avenue, Nottingham Arboretum, the General Cemetery, Waterloo Promenade, the Church Cemetery, and the Forest were created as public open spaces from the enclosures. Under the Enclosure Act, 17 acres (c 7ha) was allocated as public open space for Nottingham Arboretum. The Arboretum was designed by Samuel Curtis (1779- 1860), the nurseryman and botanical publisher, and laid out by Nottingham Town Council between 1850 and 1852. It opened to the public in 1852 and was the first public park to open in Nottingham. Further phases of activity in developing the Arboretum took place in the 1860s, 1890s, 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s.

Details LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Nottingham Arboretum is situated in the centre of Nottingham, immediately to the north-east of the General Cemetery. The 7.5ha site is bounded on the west by Waverley Street, on the north by houses on the south side of Arboretum Street, and on the south by the buildings of Nottingham Trent University. There is a private bowling green to the south-east. Addison Street forms the eastern boundary with, half way along, a tunnel

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham leading under the road to a narrow strip of land which leads to the eastern entrance on North Sherwood Street. The Arboretum occupies a small valley with hills to the north and south, the lowest point being its south-east corner. The setting is urban, the Arboretum being set amidst housing, schools, and the university.

ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES The main entrance to the Arboretum is through the gateway, flanked by screen walls and railings (listed Grade II), at the southern end of Waverley Street. The West Lodge (listed Grade II) which stands adjacent, designed in 1851 by Henry Moses Wood, Corporation Surveyor (d 1867), is built of red brick with blue-brick detailing and a tiled roof. Two brass plaques at second-storey level commemorate the establishment of the Arboretum. Photographs of c 1870 show that the Lodge then had three tall chimneys. At the extreme east of the site, off North Sherwood Street, is the east entrance with the East Lodge (listed Grade II with the gate and screen walls), designed by Wood in the 1850s and also brick built. Two other entrances, off Waverley Street and Addison Street, give pedestrian access to the Arboretum as does a small private entrance opening on to the northern perimeter walk. There is also emergency access for vehicles off Arboretum Street on the northern boundary of the Arboretum.

GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS A spinal walk runs on a roughly east/west axis from the main entrance, through the open central lawn to the east entrance. Perimeter paths backing onto the perimeter planting encircle the site. A lake on a north/south axis runs parallel to the Waverley Street boundary. The lake was part of the original Curtis design when it measured 80m x 30m, its size being now reduced. Railings surround the lake and its planting. Near to the West Lodge stands a monument to Samuel Morley (J Else 1920, listed Grade II). From the monument, a perimeter walk follows the southern boundary while the spinal walk passes between the lake and a drinking fountain of 1859 and the aviaries. Of the three surviving aviaries, the Circular Aviary (listed Grade II) is the oldest, built in 1892. The cast-iron uprights and roof struts which remain are covered with modern steel mesh. The brick-built Main Aviary is rectangular and was constructed in 1955/6. To the north, set amid Scots pines on a rockery, is the Upper Aviary built in 1934 of brick with a flat roof to house tropical birds. The spinal walk continues past a raised area with a kiosk and toilets to an area where four paths converge. From here subsidiary paths lead around a lawn planted as a Flower Garden, north-east of the lake, and join the perimeter path in the north-west corner of the Arboretum.

In the north-west corner of the Arboretum is Arboretum Manor, a public house (listed Grade II?) designed by Wood as Refreshment Rooms. The brick-built south front, overlooking the Arboretum, has a canted central bay with stone quoins and a castellated top. The wings of the Refreshment Rooms were enclosed with ornamental ironwork and glass in 1853/4. Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-65) prepared designs for the building costing £2500 but this cheaper scheme, costing £600, was used instead. The wings were demolished in 1932. There is shrub planting on either side of Arboretum Manor in front of the access paths and an area of grass has been enclosed with fencing to the front. South of this is the octagonal bandstand (listed Grade II) which has a tiled roof, brick base, and steps on the north-west side. The bandstand is fully glazed with wire grilles added to protect from vandalism. The bandstand area, including sloping terraces to the east and south, is all enclosed within iron railings. Ornamental trees have been planted and some have self-seeded within the railings. There has been a bandstand on or near this area since 1881. The first bandstand was moved

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham from Castle Green to the Arboretum in 1881 and placed in front of the Refreshment Rooms. The bandstand, flanked by two flagstaffs, is shown on the OS map of 1883. The present larger bandstand is shown on the 1915 OS map. Council records state that the first concert took place in the 'Arboretum Bandstand' on 17 May 1907. The railings and terraces were first shown on the OS map of 1934.

Between the Refreshment Rooms and the bandstand is a large area of tarmac which narrows to become the northern perimeter path. This runs for a distance of 200m through dense shrubberies planted with hollies, yews, and other evergreen species as well as deciduous shrubs. To the south of the perimeter path is the Dahlia Border. A path connects at either end of the perimeter path around the Border.

From the kiosks, the central spinal walk leads eastwards through the valley of the site towards the east entrance. Limes form an avenue for part of the walk with birches at the eastern end. The avenue originally consisted of alternating Lebanon and Deodar cedars but these did not establish well. The surrounding area is grass broken by some small flower beds. The spinal walk continues under the Addison Street underpass (Wood, listed Grade II) and ends at the east entrance. Beds planted with shrubs and flowers line either side of this end of the walk.

On a raised area above and to the south of the spinal path, reached by the southern perimeter walk from the main west entrance, are the South Lawn, the Rose Garden, and the Bell Garden. The South Lawn, which lies to the east of the Morley monument (listed Grade II) and is planted with young trees, slopes uphill towards the Rose Garden. The Rose Garden is surrounded by a clipped conifer hedge and the beds are laid out round a central sundial. A pergola with pale brick columns runs across the east end. On Jackson's map of 1851/61 and the OS map of 1883, glasshouses are shown in this area. The area was the site of the City Council nurseries until they were demolished in 1970. The Rose Garden was laid out in 1972.

East of the Rose Garden and reached by the southern perimeter path is the Bell Garden. At the centre of the garden is the octagonal Chinese Bell Tower (M Ogle Tarbotton, Borough Engineer, listed Grade II) which has a pointed roof set on columns faced with pilasters set on an octagonal base. There is a Russian inscription around the roof of the Tower and an English inscription around the base. The Tower is set within a rectangular base with stone coping on which are set two pairs of cannons. The whole is enclosed by a low clipped conifer hedge and around this is a lawn with flower beds interspersed with small conifers. The Russian cannon, captured at Sebastopol and donated to the City of Nottingham in 1859, were first placed beside the Refreshment Rooms. When, in 1861, a captured Chinese bell from Canton was also presented to the City, the Chinese Bell Tower was constructed in 1862/4 on the south side of the Arboretum incorporating both the cannons and the bell. In 1956 the bell was removed from the Tower and given to the East Lancashire Regimental Museum, Preston.

The perimeter path continues past the Bell Garden towards the east entrance, passing a statue (J B Robinson of Derby 1859, listed Grade II) of Fergus O'Connor, the Chartist Leader who was MP for Nottingham.

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The original (1850/2) layout by Samuel Curtis comprised the spinal walk, perimeter paths and some of the connecting paths, the lake, some glasshouses, and the underpass connecting the eastern end of the Arboretum, together with the Refreshment Rooms and the East and West Lodges. Due to later tree planting, the historic views to different features within the Arboretum and out into the city have largely been lost.

Nottingham Arboretum was designed to be a place of both recreation and education. The trees and shrubs had porcelain labels with a number which corresponded to a catalogue which gave the scientific name, the common name, and the country of origin. Admission charges were made when the Arboretum first opened but due to vociferous local opposition, this was dropped except for twelve days a year.

WAR MEMORIAL AND THREE HEADSTONES AT EAST ENTRANCE TO GENERAL CEMETERY Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1255249 Statutory Address: WAR MEMORIAL AND THREE HEADSTONES AT EAST ENTRANCE TO GENERAL CEMETERY, WAVERLEY STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56726 40494 SK5640SE WAVERLEY STREET 646-1/13/697 (West side (off)) War Memorial and three headstones at east entrance to General Cemetery II War memorial and headstones. c1920. Probably by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Triangular plot of York stone paving, enclosed by a rock-faced stone retaining wall with steps on 2 sides. At the apex, a standard memorial cross, Portland stone, with octagonal stepped base and bronze sword. At the rear, a curved wall, also Portland stone, with plinth and inscribed coping. The wall carries the names of the dead. To left, at the corner of the plot, 3 standard military headstones.

JOHN PERKINS HOUSE VICARAGE AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1270521 Statutory Address: JOHN PERKINS HOUSE, 14, RALEIGH STREET Statutory Address: VICARAGE AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 16, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56384 40644 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/517 (North West side) 17/10/74 Nos.14 AND 16 John Perkins House (14) & Vicarage at Church of All Saints (16) (Formerly Listed as: RALEIGH STREET All Saint's Vicarage) GV II Vicarage, now vicarage and house. 1863-64. By Hine & Evans of Nottingham for William Windley. Rockfaced Bulwell sandstone, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with coped gables and kneelers. Ridge and side wall stacks with multiple square flues. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics; 3 x 2 bays. Double range plan. Windows are

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham mainly plain sashes with cusped pointed arched lights. Garden front has to right a projecting gabled porch, 2 storeys, with a pointed arched doorway and sidelights with shafts, under a polychrome relieving arch. Angled corner window to left. Above, a 2-light window. To right, a similar projecting bay with a window on each floor. To left, a canted bay window, 2 lights, and above it, a through- eaves dormer with a 2-light window. Left corner has an angled bay window, 2 lights, with tracery. Left return has 2 gables, the left one projecting, with a window on each floor. Right return, to All Saints Street, has to left a canted bay window with a door to its right, then a single window and through-eaves dormer. To right again, a gable with a window on each floor. Rear has flat-headed windows, some mullioned. INTERIOR has original cornices and strapwork cross to one ceiling. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 237; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 19-20).

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1255063 Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56438 40639 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/515 (North West side) 12/07/72 Church of All Saints (Formerly Listed as: ALL SAINTS STREET Church of All Saints) GV II Parish church. 1863-64. By Hine & Evans for William Windley. Rockfaced stone and ashlar in contrasting colours, polychrome ashlar bands and dressings. Plain tile roofs, hipped and gabled. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: apsidal chancel, chapel and vestry, transepts, nave with clerestory and aisles, porches, baptistry, west tower with spire. EXTERIOR: plinth, coped gables with crosses. Windows have pointed arches with plate tracery and hood moulds. Chancel, single bay, has buttressed east end and renewed parapet. Five east windows, 2-lights, with blind arcades below. Single round window each side, and frieze with 4 quatrefoil windows. Priest's door in angle to south. North chapel has a 3-light east window. Vestry, to south, has a wheel window to east, with a small 2- light window below it. 3-light window to south. North and south transepts each have a wheel window in a pointed arch surround, and a buttress stack to south-east. Clerestory has on each side 4 traceried window heads, and a smaller window head to east. Aisles, 4 bays, have three 3-light windows and porch to west. Traceried window head in west end. Gabled porches have moulded doorways with cast-iron lamp brackets above them, and 2 round windows to east. Baptistry, north of the tower, gabled with a 3-light window. West tower, 3 stages, has buttresses and on the south west corner, a round stair turret with spire. To west, a large 3-light window. Above, on each side, 2 small lancets. Bell stage has enriched 3-light openings. Octagonal broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes. INTERIOR has mainly roll-moulded arches and main windows with shafts. Chancel has arch with marble shafts and polychrome gable, and pointed arched wagon roof. North and south sides have arched openings. East end has stained glass window, 1882, and triptych by Hammersley Ball. Piscina to south. North chapel has truss roof and stained glass east window, 1922, by Ms Howson and Ms Townsend. Nave has arcades, 5 bays, with round piers and linked hood moulds, arch braced roof with stone wall shafts on corbels. Double chamfered tower arch and stained glass west window. Aisles have arch braced roofs and single stained glass windows, that to north dated 1927. North aisle

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham has pointed arched west doorway. Transepts have common rafter roofs and double chamfered arch to east. North arch has traceried wooden screen. South arch has war memorial, c1920, in the form of a reredos and altar. Fittings include arcaded round ashlar font with cover by Harry Gill, enriched round ashlar pulpit, cross-framed benches and traceried stalls, all original. Brass eagle lectern. Memorials include brass, 1877, to Willam Windley, the founder, and another brass to his family. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 237; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 19).

COMMUNITY CENTRE AND WORKSPACE UNITS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Heritage Category:Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1255076 Statutory Address: COMMUNITY CENTRE AND WORKSPACE UNITS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56386 40608 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/518 (North West side) 17/10/74 Community centre and workspace units at Church of All Saints (Formerly Listed as: RALEIGH STREET All Saints' Institute) GV II Church schools, now community centre and workspace units. 1864-65. By Hine & Evans of Nottingham for William Windley. Late C19 additions. Converted late C20. Rockfaced Bulwell stone with ashlar dressings and banded plain tile roofs. External stacks on each front and in the return angle, with round flues, 2 of them paired. Gothic Revival style. Plinth. Windows, 2 and 3 lights, have mainly cusped pointed arched lights and stone mullions. 2 storeys and single storey; 4 x 4 windows. L-plan. North-east front, buttressed, has to left a round bell tower with 2 lancet windows, and a band of Gothic vents below a tiled conical spire. To right, 3 flat-headed windows. Above, 3 pointed arched windows, then a window altered to a doorway. South east front, the same height but single storey, has 4 windows. Each gable has two 2-light windows with hood moulds. Recessed wing, to north east, has a similar gable window, 3 lights, and 2 side windows, 3 lights. INTERIOR: divided horizontally, has double purlin roof and wall shafts. Late C19 addition has steel truss roof with traceried sheet metal spandrels. An ancillary building to the Church of All Saints (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 237).

CHURCHYARD WALL, GATEWAYS AND RAILINGS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1254983 Statutory Address: CHURCHYARD WALL, GATEWAYS AND RAILINGS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56449 40618 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/516 (North West side) 17/10/74 Churchyard wall, gateways and railings at Church of All Saints (Formerly Listed as: RALEIGH STREET All Saint's Churchyard Wall, Gate Piers, Gate archway, Gates & Railings) GV II

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Churchyard wall, gateways and railings. 1864-65. By Hine & Evans of Nottingham for William Windley. Rockfaced Bulwell stone with ashlar plinth and moulded coping. The wall runs north eastwards from 75 Raleigh Street approx 100m to a rounded corner, then runs westwards approx 80m along All Saints Street as far as All Saints Terrace. Raleigh Street section has a central pointed arched gateway under a crowstepped gable and finial, with original wrought-iron gates. To its left, a gateway with square piers and pyramidal caps, and a similar pair of gates. All Saints Street section has a gateway to the church's north porch, with cast-iron sliding gates and flanking railings. Pair of square piers at the corner with Tennyson Street. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 237).

ALL SAINTS WORKPLACE UNITS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1270522 Statutory Address: ALL SAINTS WORKPLACE UNITS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 75, RALEIGH STREET Statutory Address: ALL SAINTS WORKPLACE UNITS AT CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 75, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56418 40592 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/519 (North West side) 17/10/74 No.75 All Saints Workspace Units at Church of All Saints (Formerly Listed as: RALEIGH STREET No.75) GV II Teacher's house, now workspace units. 1864-65. By Hine & Evans of Nottingham for William Windley. Converted late C20. Rockfaced Bulwell stone with ashlar dressings and banded plain tile roof, with coped gables and square ridge stack. Gothic Revival style. Plinth. 2 storeys; 2 x 2 bays. Double range plan. Windows, 2 and 3 lights, have cusped pointed arches and stone mullions. Double gabled front, to Raleigh Street, has to left a smaller projecting gable with triple arched entrance and board door with sidelights. Above, a window. Right gable has a window on each floor. Right return has 2 windows, and above, to right, a through-eaves dormer. An ancillary building to the Church of All Saints (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 237).

ST MARY'S HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS Heritage Category: Listed Building Grade: II List Entry Number: 1255060 Statutory Address: ST MARY'S HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND RAILINGS, 73, RALEIGH STREET District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56397 40568 SK54SE RALEIGH STREET 646-1/4/514 (North West side) No.73 St Mary's House and attached wall and railings II House, now hostel, and attached wall and railings. 1870, by TC Hine for his son GT Hine. Converted late C20. Red brick, with ashlar and blue brick dressings and hipped slate roof. Windows are mainly plain sashes with brick segmental arches and ashlar springings. 2 storeys; 3 x 4 bays. Corner site. Symmetrical front with tripartite round-arched doorway and shafts, original 6-panel door and

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham fanlight. On each side, a tripartite sash. Above, a small central window flanked by tripartite windows, all with deep sills on brackets. Each return has towards the front, a triangular bay window under a corbelled side wall stack. Left return has a tripartite sash, then a side door, then a set back block to left, 2 windows. Mainly tripartite sashes. Outside, fronting the left return, a brick area wall topped with a traceried cast-iron railing and gate. GT Hine was in partnership with his father, 1867-1890, and became Consulting Architect to HM Commissioners in Lunacy. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 240-241).

GENERAL CEMETERY Heritage Category: Park and Garden Grade: II List Entry Number: 1001487 District: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority) National Grid Reference: SK 56557 40348 Details An Anglican cemetery of 1836 with Dissenters' extension added in 1865, both with their own mortuary chapels, since demolished. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The cemetery was set up by the Nottingham General Cemetery Company, which was established by a special Act of Parliament for which Royal Assent was given on 19 May 1836 (Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter). The original site comprised 14 acres (c 6ha); a further 4 acres (c 1.6ha) was added under the 1845 Enclosure Act and is shown on the Enclosure Award map of 1865. The Enclosure Act enclosed fields and meadows used by the burgesses or freeholders of the City to graze their animals and, to compensate for the loss of open space used for recreation, allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks. One hundred and thirty acres (c 54ha) made up of Queen's Walk and Queen's Walk Park (Meadows Cricket Ground),Victoria Park, Robin Hood Chase, Corporation Oaks, St Ann's Hill (Belle Vue Reservoir), Elm Avenue, Nottingham Arboretum (qv), the General Cemetery, Waterloo Promenade, the Church Cemetery (qv), and The Forest were created as public open spaces from the enclosures.

By 1923 150,000 bodies had been buried and the then Medical Officer of Health expressed concern about the future of the cemetery if interments continued. A Bill was brought before Parliament by Nottingham Corporation to close the cemetery if further interments took place except into existing family graves. Due to escalating operating costs after the Second World War the Company made representations to the Corporation to take over the cemetery. The Corporation declined, the Company went into voluntary liquidation, and the cemetery became vested in the Crown. The Crown conveyed the freehold of the cemetery and all its responsibilities to the City Council in 1956 and it remains (2000) in their ownership (Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter).

DESCRIPTION LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING General Cemetery is located in the centre of the city of Nottingham, immediately to the south-west of the Arboretum (qv), and comprises 7.3ha. The cemetery is bounded by Canning Terrace on the south-west boundary and by Cromwell Street on the north-west boundary, with part of Waverley Street as the north-east boundary. The northern part of the east boundary is made up by Clarendon Street, the mid part by the Friends Meeting

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House and its garden, and the southern part by Talbot Street. The cemetery occupies part of a long shallow valley which rises gently towards the south-west. The setting is urban.

ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES The main entrance is from Canning Terrace on the south-west boundary of the cemetery. The cemetery gatehouse, flanked by almshouses (listed grade II), was designed by S S Rawlinson for the General Cemetery Company. Built 1837-40 in stucco and brick, it has slate roofs and corniced stacks. The facade is symmetrical with a square gatehouse flanked by ranges of almshouses with pedimented centres. The processional route leads from the gates (Falconer and Company of Derby 1839) of the gatehouse north-eastwards along a raised path to the site of the Anglican mortuary chapel (demolished late-1950s). Another entrance off Talbot Street in the south-east leads northwards also to the site of the Anglican chapel. In the north-east corner of the cemetery, at the corner of Clarendon Street and Waverley Street, a further entrance was formerly marked by a lodge (demolished late-1950s) (Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter). From this entrance a path leads north-westwards to the site of the Dissenters' mortuary chapel (demolished late-1950s).

PRINCIPAL BUILDING The southern, Anglican mortuary chapel (demolished late 1950s), located 150m north-east of the Canning Street entrance (Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter), was built in a neo-Greek style with a tetrastyle Ionic portico approached up a flight of steps (Brooks 1989). The northern, Dissenters' mortuary chapel, located 100m west of the north-east entrance, was built in English Gothic style (Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter) OTHER LAND The cemetery has an informal layout of grass and mainly native broadleaved trees, with winding paths and simple headstones, some of Swithland slate. A path runs from south-west to north-east through two-thirds of the cemetery. This meets the serpentine path which connected the two former chapels. Further paths lead off the main serpentine path. A memorial obelisk (1838, listed grade II) stands north of the path 100m east of the gatehouse. Built of ashlar, it stands on an inscribed square pedestal and base with a flight of four steps leading up to it. The obelisk was erected by the Directors of the Cemetery Company to a fellow director, D S Churchill, who died in a shipwreck off the Farne Islands. Standing south-east of the site of the Anglican chapel is a family memorial (c 1908, listed grade II) to the members of the Bright family who died between 1871 and 1928. By the north-east entrance to the cemetery stands a war memorial (listed grade II).

A draft Enclosure map of January 1848 shows the area north of the General Cemetery marked as 'Proposed Dissenters Cemetery'. The narrative of the map states that 'A Dissenters and a Church Cemetery (the situation not yet fully decided upon) will relieve the overcrowded burial places of the town'. By 1865 the Nottingham Enclosure Award map shows the General Cemetery with an area to the north-east between the General Cemetery and Waverley Street marked thus: 'Jas Smith Baldwin & others by direction of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of Nottingham Dissenters' Cemetery'. The division between the two parts of the cemetery is shown clearly on the 1865 map. The Dissenters' area lies in the north-east part of the cemetery, the boundary between the two marked as a continuation of Clarendon Road (formerly Cemetery Road) running northwards. The boundary continues for a short distance north-westwards, possibly on the line of a continuation of Shakespeare Street (formerly Lark Dale Road), to the north-east edge of the cemetery (Enclosure map, 1865). The 1st edition OS map of 1883 shows the cemetery laid out with the main serpentine path from the Canning Terrace entrance leading to the Anglican chapel, and on past an unidentified

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Dr Ramona Usher Conservation Heritage Statement 114 Raleigh Street, Nottingham building (gone by 1901, OS) which stood at the junction of a path running alongside the north-west side of the Friends Meeting House garden and the main serpentine path, then so to the Dissenters' chapel. A further building stood immediately south-west of this chapel. At this date, 1883, the whole cemetery was scattered with trees.

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