Clifton Hall, Nottingham

Heritage listing

Details NOTTINGHAM SK53SW HOLGATE, Clifton 646-1/9/281 Clifton Hall 14/04/54 (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON Clifton Hall) GV I Country house, now university offices. Late C16, altered c1632, probably by John Smythson. Internal alterations late C17, and c1731-62, probably with the assistance of Lord Burlington. Remodelled c1779 by John Carr of York. Further alterations C19. Converted 1953. Brick and ashlar with hipped stone slate roofs. Various coped stacks, mostly on side walls. EXTERIOR: main ranges have plinth, first floor band and pierced balustrade. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes with projecting ashlar surrounds, the second floor windows are smaller. 3 storeys; 15 x 5 bays. C-plan. Symmetrical fronts to an irregular interior, with central octagonal hall flanked to left by a first floor Great Chamber. Square wings, the principal rooms to left, service rooms to right. Entrance front, to south, has a recessed centre, 5 windows, flanked by wings of the same size, linked across the centre by a single storey colonnade of paired Tuscan columns. Several false windows in the centre, which screens the central hall. Under the colonnade, an off-centre door, and at each end, round-arched doors. Wings have similar fenestration, with unequal spacing to left. West front, by Carr, ashlar, has a central bow window, 3 storeys, with round-arched windows to the ground floor, and reglazed first floor windows. Side bays have blank ground floor, and single windows above. North front has 7 windows, unequally spaced and some false, and a doorway in the fifth bay. To left, a square projection, 2 storeys with quoins and parapet, containing the main stair. Pedimented doorcase to west, Venetian stair window to north. North front has 4 windows, several reglazed, and altered porch. INTERIOR:

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.