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Berkeley Avenue, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5TT

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.

A domed entrance leading into the "Player Wing", an extension of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital that presumably was constructed to provide a focal point in this hallway connecting various wings of the complex. The premises on the left were originally the home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin (1831-1922), the Nottingham lace manufacturer who was created 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange in 1905. When he took up residence in Ruddington he donated the property for conversion into paediatric hospital and it continued to function in this vein (with substantial extensions funded by John Dane Player in 1939) until the early 1980s. The premises were then used as a HQ of the Nottinghamshire Health Authority and later as the base for the Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned and used by an Islamic Trust.

Part of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital as seen from the front drive. Originally this part of the complex was the former home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin of the lace-making dynasty, 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.

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.

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.

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.

There is an OS benchmark Image on a stone in the wall left of the junction with the low wall with railings on top

A tennis court in front of a part of the former Nottingham Children's Hospital, as viewed from the Chestnut Grove entrance/exit. This section may be a part of the extensions funded by John Dane Player in 1939? The oldest part of the complex was once the home of Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, the lace manufacturer, who donated the house and grounds for conversion into a paediatric hospital in 1905 when he was created 1st Baronet of Ruddington Grange. It served as a children's hospital until the early 1980s, after which it became the HQ for Nottinghamshire Health Authority and subsequently the HQ of the Nottingham Health Authority. It is now owned and used by an Islamic Trust.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm47944

Distinctive houses at the southern end of Mapperley Park.