Image ID: 43125

Peveril Prison, St Peter's Street, Radford, Nottingham, 1902

Courtesy of Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Photographic Society

St Peter's Street
Nottingham, Radford
Nottinghamshire
England

This building is said to be the old Workhouse. R Mellors book Old Nottingham Suburbs gives a confusing account of its history. In it he states that it was built in 1838 at a cost of £2,600 and the furniture and fixtures cost £1,296. It then became home for poor children, housing 120 children from 4-16 under the care of Mr And Burrows. The premises were then closed and the children fostered in homes around Nottingham (he gives no date for this). It then served as a jail for debtors sued in the Peveril Court. An 1844 Directory states that the court was then held at Radford and its powers ceased in 1849. The Charity Commissioners leased the property, and those in Peveril Yard, as two (?) cottages and the income from them used to fund 2 scholarships at 12 Guineas a year, each for 3 years, at the Nottingham and Girls High School. Looking at this and other images of Peveril House, however, suggests a conflict of information. The roof structure suggests that Peveril House was a far older building than those surrounding it. There are many small intriguing architectural features and alterations in these buildings, arched windows that have been filled in and altered, different brickwork above the second storey, stone copings on the gables, tall (rather than the usual wide) frame-knitters style windows and older stone footings in the middle house. See NTGM001606 and NTGM001607 for an 1898 photograph of the buildings which shows that alterations had been done very much earlier. The building was demolished in 1961.<br />

Date: 14/07/2002

Organisation Reference: NCCV000211

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