1 Tattershall Drive

One of a pair of three storey houses (with 2 Park Drive) c1875, similar to a pair at 3 and 5 Tattershall Drive. Also similar in styling and details with 4 and 6 Park Drive. Now converted into flats. Prominent position at junction of Park Drive and Tattershall Drive. Plans for a garage prepared for Perry Rushton c1931. Red brick facades with stone door and window surrounds. Three storey canted window bay on front facing facade with slate hipped roof and two storey canted window bay on projecting side wing, adjacent to main entrance, with flat roof and low parapet. Various brickwork features including bull nose brick detail at gable verges, eaves and at head of three storey bay with blue brick corbel, string courses and nailhead mouldings. Segmental arched heads to some rear window openings with alternating buff and blue brick voussoirs. Stone surrounds to all main openings, mostly rectangular with segmental and semicircular arched heads to some smaller openings. Stonework relatively plain with splay reveals plus mouldings to cornice heads on bays, hoodmoulds and door architraves. Stonework now painted. Double pitched roof with gables and hips. Original slate roof covering now replaced by tiles. Clay ridge tiles with lead valleys and bay hips. Red brick chimney stacks with red and blue string courses and mouldings at base of cap. Mainly buff coloured ‘louvre’ chimney pots. Top section of one stack altered. Original c.i. rainwater fittings have been replaced. Sash windows generally. Original red brick boundary wall with Bulwell stone plinth, including blue brick string courses and details plus half round brick copings. Original gate piers with pyramidal shaped stone caps. Part of original wall to Tattershall Drive boundary removed when garage was added.