Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW KING STREET
646-1/14/307 (East side)
12/07/72 Nos.14-30 (Even)

GV II

Drapery store, now shops and offices. 1895. By Watson
Fothergill of Nottingham for Jessop & Son. Restored c1990. Red
brick, with ashlar, granite and terracotta dressings, on an
iron and concrete frame. Gabled and hipped plain tile roofs
with several corbelled brick stacks. Irregular gabled facade,
in Domestic Revival style.
First floor balustrade, sill and impost bands and string
courses. 4 and 5 storeys plus attics; 13 window range. Windows
are mainly stone mullioned cross casements. The front is
divided by brick pilasters into 5 bays, 4 of them with
timber-framed gables with patterned bargeboards. 4 main bays,
to the right, have arcaded fenestration with a different
shaped arch on each floor.
Major fourth bay has a fifth floor oriel window, 3 lights, and
balustrade on brackets. Timber-framed attics have 2 hipped
through-eaves dormers and a pyramidal roof topped with a
square turret and finial, also with pyramidal roof.
Second and third bays have canted oriel windows, 3 storeys, 3
lights, above the second floor. Fourth bay has a first floor
square oriel window, 3 lights, on cast-iron brackets.
Plainer first bay has flat-headed windows and a canted oriel
window on stone brackets to the attic.
Ground floor has original openings defined by granite
pilasters, with some original glazing bar overlights and late
C20 shopfronts.
A major example of Watson Fothergill's commercial buildings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 234; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson
Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 12 & 13).

Listing NGR: SK5725040037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546196

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)