BIRKIN BUILDING

BIRKIN BUILDING, BROADWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246290
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: BIRKIN BUILDING
Statutory Address:: BIRKIN BUILDING, BROADWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246290
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: BIRKIN BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: BIRKIN BUILDING, BROADWAY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRKIN BUILDING, BROADWAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 57647 39711

Details

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.)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 454867
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 218
Brand, K, 'Get To Know Nottingham' in Thomas Chambers Hine An Architect of Victorian Nottingham, (), 10-12

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.