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Mansfield Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 2DP

A delightful pair of houses.

This delightful pair of houses was built in 1887. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1344954 The boundary walls and gates are also listed, grade II, with details at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254765

Fothergill's lovely house, Clawson Lodge, is now the Ukrainian Cultural Centre. In the 1950s my Auntie Ethel and Uncle Harold lived in some splendour in the top-floor flat. Fothergill characteristics include the heavy bargeboards, the black timbering, the fine red and blue brickwork, the tall chimney stacks and the leaded lights. For views of the whole building and the lychgate-like entrance gate, see Alan Murray-Rust's pictures http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211550 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211527.

Substantial semi-detached houses built in 1887, just up the hill from the earlier Clawson Lodge http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1823816. The diapered brickwork, black woodwork and towering chimney stacks are Fothergill characteristics. The photograph is taken from the corner of Mapperley Hall Drive, opposite Clawson Lodge.

A fine building for what are in fact quite modestly sized houses. The nearest is now an osteopathic clicnic, but the others look as if they are still in residential use. The building carries a date of 1906.

This delightful block of four houses was bauilt in 1906. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1058981 The boundary walls and gateways are also listed, grade II, with details at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1254766

This fine Grade II listed house, designed by the flamboyant Victorian architect Watson Fothergill, was built for a lace manufacturer in 1885. Later flats (an aunt of mine lived on the first floor in the 1950s), it became the Nottingham offices of Bupa and is now Nottingham Ukrainian Cultural Centre. For more about this and other Fothergill buildings in the city, see David Lally's https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill . The picture was taken through the gate from Watcombe Road. Image] is a view from the other side of the road.

The front corner of Fothergill's lovely house, Clawson Lodge, seen through its tile-roofed gate. In the 1950s my Auntie Ethel and Uncle Harold lived in some splendour in the top-floor flat. Fothergill characteristics include the black wood, the fine red and blue brickwork, the tall chimney stacks and the leaded lights. Clawson Lodge has been the Nottingham office of Bupa and is now the Ukrainian Cultural Centre. For an idea of the whole building and the lychgate-like entrance gate, see Alan Murray-Rust's pictures http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211550 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1211527.

The front corner of Fothergill's lovely house, Clawson Lodge, at the time when it was the Nottingham office of Bupa. It is now the Ukrainian Cultural Centre and the creeper has been tamed - see Image In the 1950s my Auntie Ethel and Uncle Harold lived in some splendour in the top-floor flat. Fothergill characteristics include the black wood, the fine red and blue brickwork, the tall chimney stacks and the leaded lights.

Clawson Lodge was a private house designed by the distinctive local architect Watson Fothergill. Even this little entrance gate shows specific hallmarks - the black timbering, the red-tiled roof, and in particular the style of lettering used for the name carved into the gate-stones. The letters are created by carving out the background, the letters themselves being flush with the face of the stone, and of a style derived clearly from medieval manuscript illustration.