Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE BROADWAY
646-1/21/59 (South side)
12/07/72 Birkin Building
(Formerly Listed as:
BROADWAY
Nos 2-6 (even) and Warehouse
occupied by John Lees & Co.)

GV II

Lace warehouse, now club and offices. Dated 1855. By TC Hine
of Nottingham for Richard Birkin, lace manufacturer. Built by
Garland & Holland. Restored and converted c1987. Red brick,
with ashlar ground floor and dressings. Roof not visible
behind rendered coped parapet. Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, ground floor cornice, string course, eaves
cornice. 4 storeys; 8 x 3 windows. L-plan, following the curve
of the street. Windows are mainly original round-arched lights
with stone mullions, glazing bars and hood moulds. Ground
floor windows have moulded surrounds and aprons.
Main entrance front, facing east, has a central projecting
entrance bay with a canted tower porch, 3 storeys, with double
doors. Above, bay windows, 3 lights. Above again, a double
window. On each side, single windows on each floor. To right a
rounded corner, single windows, and to left, a rounded concave
corner with 2 windows.
Left return, facing north, has to left an entrance bay with a
central segment-arched cart entrance with an inscribed ribbon
above it. Above, triple windows on each floor. Under the arch,
a reset 2-light window, C12, from St Mary's Church, and a
plaque with the Plumptre arms. On each side, canted bay
windows, 3 storeys, 3 lights, the left one with a shouldered
double doorway and shafts. Above them, double windows. To
right, a range with regular fenestration, 5 windows.
INTERIOR: refitted c1987, has cast-iron columns to wooden
floor beams.
This building stands on the site of Plumptre House, 1730, by
Colen Campbell, demolished 1853. A major example of Hine's
commercial buildings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 218; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers
Hine; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham:
10-12).

Listing NGR: SK5764739711

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538714

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)