Hucknall Area
6. Houses of Rest for Miners, Park Drive, Hucknall6. Houses of Rest for Miners, Park Drive, Hucknall
||Name of Building: Houses of Rest for Miners
Address: Park Drive (West Side), Hucknall
Grade
of Building: II
Date of Listing:
Grid Reference: SK 54 NW
Group Value: Yes
Serial No: 7/60
Houses of rest for miners. 1925. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Sir Julien Cahn. Brick with plain tile and leaded hipped and gabled roofs. Ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins, stone plinth, string courses, modillioned eaves. 6 coped ridge stacks.
Single storey. 3 cross-gabled linked blocks each of 3 bays, the side wings splayed. Windows are single and triple glazing bar sashes, with keystoned flat arched heads.
Central block has projecting pedimented central bay with pedimented framed blank panel with crest, flanked by single sashes. Beyond, single larger sashes and beyond again, single round-headed doorways. Above, central octagonal cupola with stepped copper dome, clock and finial.
Each flanking wing has projecting central bay with two sashes and above, pediment containing round window. Beyond, single sashes. Beyond again, single doorways and beyond them, single small casements. In each end, a single sash.
Each rear elevation has projecting central pediment bay with 2 sashes, flanked by single flat-roofed additions each with door flanked by single casements.
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