Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE WARSER GATE
646-1/21/685 (North side)
No.35

GV II

Warehouse, now studios and workrooms. Dated 1879. By TH Kent
of Chesterfield for Rogers & Black. Steel framing with
concrete floors, ashlar basement, red brick skin, brick and
ashlar dressings, and slate clerestory roof.
EXTERIOR: plinth, cornice to basement. Windows to upper floors
divided by brick pilasters into round-arched bays. Windows are
mainly wooden framed casements with transoms. 4 storeys plus
basement and attics; 8 window range. Corner site, with angled
corner entrance bay .
Warser Gate front has at basement level 5 barred windows,
flanked by 6-panel double doors, the left door with cornice.
Beyond, to right, a single window. Upper floors have 8
windows, with panelled lintels between floors. Clerestory roof
has continuous fenestration.
Entrance bay to right, ashlar, Baroque Revival style, 2
storeys. Rusticated round-arched doorway flanked by paired
pilasters, with scroll keystone and entablature. Panelled
double doors and fanlight. Above, a tripartite plain sash with
coved mullions, flanked by paired pilasters. Cornice with
central break and fanlight. Above again, a broken segmental
pediment with finial and volutes. To right, a side bay, 2
storeys, single window, in the same style as the Warser Gate
front.
INTERIOR has jack-arched concrete floors.
This building is an exceptionally early example of steel
framing. Steel sections for this purpose were not regularly
available till 1881. It also features an early use of in-situ
concrete floors.
(Journal of Textile History: Oldfield G: 1984-: 201; B Arch.
Dissertations, University of Nottingham: Maddison CH:
Nottingham Lace Market: 1976-).

Listing NGR: SK5761639898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546798

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)