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Lucknow Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5BB

Occupying a corner plot where Lucknow Drive joins Magdala Road (in the Alexandra Court/Woodborough Road area) is another house designed by Thomas Chambers Hine the Victorian Architect. He drew up the plans for this property, a private residence, in 1886 when he was 73 years old, 5 years shy of his retirement. Architecturally, this one has the shaped gables and decorative strapwork (i.e. patterns and moulding - in stone - on the exterior of the house) of Hine's Jacobean revival style. At present the property appears to be a retirement home.

Bus stop on the corner of Dagmore Grove.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the third stone above the pavement in the wall left of the gate

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47883

The steep road which links the city (ahead) and Mapperley, seen on an overcast Sunday morning in June.

The house has been modified in recent years with an extension on its right hand side incorporating an integral garage which replaced a detached garage on which Ordnance Survey documents indicate that in 1962 had a cut mark benchmark levelled at 70.686m above Newlyn Datum.

Ordnance Survey documents indicate that in 1962 there was a cut mark benchmark levelled at 112.538m above Newlyn Datum on the wall opposite the junction

Looking north along Cyprus Road. The junction with Ebers Road can be seen on the left, and that with Merrivale Court on the right, just at the end of the high Bulwell stone wall. The boundary with Image is about where the white vans are. Cyprus road continues up the hill to join Mapperley Hall Drive. Typical of the streets in the Mapperley Park and Alexandra Park Conservation Area, Cyprus Road is lined with trees and has houses that exhibit a wide range of Vernacular Revival styles that defined the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.

This section of Woodborough Road hosts the Nottinghamshire Hospice, whose entrance and exits gates are seen on either side of this stationary car. Apparently this was once the home of John Player, the tobacco giant and his family. His former coach house, with the pitched roof and cupola, sits opposite the two cars ascending from the city centre, adjacent to Magdala Road.

Although the dominant feature on this section of Woodborough Road as it descends towards the city centre is the modern apartment block called Alexandra Court, immediately in front of it - with the pitched roof and cupola - is the former coach house associated with the home of John Player, the tobacco giant. Apparently John Player and his family lived in the large house that now accommodates the Nottinghamshire Hospice and the "out" sign on the right indicates one of the entrances/exits that would have been used by carriages conveying people and goods to the 'big house'. The coach house is currently used by a light industrial enterprise.