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Thorncliffe Rise, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5BS

The edge of Mapperley Park, on the hillier east side of Nottingham. Thorncliffe Road is at the bottom of the road.

Distinctive houses at the southern end of Mapperley Park.

Forest House, the gift of Sir Thomas Birkin, was a children's hospital until 1979, then the headquarters of the local health authority and is now the home of the Jamia Al-Hudaa Muslim Residential Girls' School.

A rendered Edwardian house with an Arts and Crafts look to it. The houses of Mapperley Park attest to the prosperity of late-Victorian and Edwardian Nottingham.

The bay-windowed wing on the right was once part of the home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, of the local lace-making dynasty. When he moved to Ruddington in 1905, having been created 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange, he gave the away the house and grounds for conversion into a Children's Hospital. In 1939 John Dane Player, of the tobacco family, funded substantial extension work and it continued to function as a paediatric hospital until the early 1980s. After this, it became the HQ of Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority and later the base of Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned by an Islamic Trust. This is a view from inside the Berkeley Ave entrance/exit gates.

Substantial Edwardian houses at the Redcliffe Road end of Thorncliffe Road.

This single-storey wing is the former Out-Patients' Department of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital as seen from the Berkeley Ave entrance to the complex. The arched doorway on the right is a principal entrance into the former home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, of the lace-making dynasty, who donated the house and grounds for conversion into a paediatric hospital in 1905 when he was created 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange. In 1939 John Dane Player, of the tobacco company, funded the extensions on the left. The premises became the HQ of the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority in the early 1980s and later the base of the Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned and used by an Islamic Trust.

The front elevation and a principal side door of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital as seen from the front drive. The staircase inside the arched entrance on the right leads to several vast reception rooms on first floor. Originally this part of the complex was the former home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, of the lace-making dynasty, who became 1st Baronet Birkin of Ruddington Grange. He donated the house and grounds for conversion into a paediatric hospital in 1905. In 1939 John Dane Player, of the tobacco company, funded major extensions behind the house. The premises became the HQ of the Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority in the early 1980s and later the base of the Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned and used by an Islamic Trust.