Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SE GEORGE STREET
646-1/15/223 (West side)
12/07/72 Nos.15 AND 17

II

Architect's office, now solicitor's office. 1895. By Watson
Fothergill for himself. Converted late C20. Elaborate
polychrome work, red brick with ashlar and blue brick
dressings and plain tile roof with tile crest. Stylised brick
gable and side wall stacks. Gothic Revival style.
Blue brick plinth and first floor band. 2 storeys plus attics;
5 window range. Windows are mainly wooden framed cross
casements and plain sashes with leaded glazing.
Asymmetrical front has to left a board door in a shouldered
opening with shafts. To right, 2 segmental arches with a grey
granite column, containing a late C20 panelled door and
window. Beyond, a basket arched passage entrance. To left, a
2-light window with plate tracery. Above, to left, a
machicolated turret with 3 trefoil-headed windows under
gables. Octagonal spire roof and 2 steep pitched hipped
lucarnes, with crests and finial. To right, 4 trefoil-headed
windows with clustered shafts. Between the left pair, the
figure of a medieval architect, and between the others, busts
of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Street.
The names of Scott, Burges and Shaw are
inscribed. Under the windows, 4 reliefs showing building
construction.
Above again, in the centre, a cross casement. To right, a
timber-framed gable on brackets, with brick nogging and arched
bargeboard, framing 2 cross casements.
This building exemplifies Fothergill's eclectic style and its
figures and inscriptions pay tribute to his architectural
mentors.
Ground floor refitted late C20.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 233; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson
Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 19).

Listing NGR: SK5751240018

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539851

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