Adams Building and Attached Railings

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NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE STONEY STREET 646-1/21/623 (West side) 12/07/72 Nos.12 AND 14 Adams Building and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: STONEY STREET Nos.12, 14 AND 16) (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY'S GATE Nos.1, 3, 11 AND 15)

GV II*

Includes: No.28 WARSER GATE. Includes: Nos.1, 3, 11, 15 AND 17 ST MARY'S GATE. Lace finishers' warehouses, now workrooms and shops, and attached railings. Central block 1855, by TC Hine of Nottingham for Adams, Page & Co., incorporating a building of c1800. Rear additions fronting St Mary's Gate, c1862 and c1865, probably also by Hine. Addition to north, fronting Warser Gate, c1880. These additions are in a sympathetic style with the central block and with each other. Red brick, with ashlar and dressed stone facings to the front, ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. Various internal structures according to date. EXTERIOR: 3 and 5 storeys plus basement and attics. Irregular plan, with rear ranges set about 2 internal courtyards. Windows are mainly round-arched or segment-arched cast-iron glazing bar casements. Larger windows have stone mullions and tracery. Centre block, Italianate style, 3 storeys plus basement and attics, E-plan. Rusticated basement, ashlar ground floor, quoins, cornices to each floor, coped parapet with finials. Projecting centrepiece with stone steps and balustrades leading to a ground floor entrance with round-arched doorway flanked by pilasters and single cross casements. Above, a rounded bay window, 2 storeys, 3 lights, topped with a balustrade and flanked by round-arched cross mullioned windows on each floor. Attics have a large round-arched window flanked by single cross casements, and above, a shaped gable flanked by a balustrade, with a triple window and a clock. On each side, curving wings with ranges of regular fenestration, cross casements on the ground floor, round-arched casements with linked hood moulds above. End elevations similar to the centrepiece, with a square bay window, 3 storeys, 3 lights, flanked by single windows on each floor. Basement to right, formerly a chapel, has a central doorway with sidelights, flanked by traceried 2-light windows. Outside, a full width wrought-iron railing with ashlar plinth. At the rear, at each end, a round stair turret. Central spinal block reaching to St Mary's Gate, with at first floor level a covered walkway carried on cast-iron brackets on the south side. St Mary's Gate front, 4 storeys, 5 windows, has a projecting centre defined by quoins, with a segment-arched cart entrance and gates, and above, 3 windows on each floor. Single flanking windows on each floor, one altered to a door. Addition to right, c1865, comprises 2 blocks, 4 storeys plus basement and attics, 6 window range, linked by a recessed entrance bay with a projecting centrepiece defined by quoins. The blocks have rounded corners with various windows, some traceried, and an elaborate doorway with sidelights to the far left. At the right end, an entrance bay with round-arched ashlar doorway, and above, tripartite windows on 2 floors, with segmental pediments. At the rear, fronting King's Place, a block of houses, c1800, 4 storeys plus basement, brick with painted ground floor and hipped slate roof. Addition to left, c1862, a projecting block, 4 storeys plus basement and attics, 7 window range, with a rounded corner to left with cross mullioned windows. Northern addition, c1880, is a corner block, 4 storeys plus basement and attics, 7 x 7 windows, with a rounded corner defined by quoins and with paired traceried windows. St Mary's Gate front has to right a segment-arched cart entrance. Warser Gate front has an off-centre entrance with a round-arched double door with granite shafts and a relief sculpture in the tympanum. Above it, a Venetian window. INTERIOR has inside the front entrance a spinal corridor with a round-arched arcade, 3 bays, with round columns and wrought-iron screens, beyond which is a stone staircase with elaborate cast-iron balustrade and ramped wooden handrail, leading to the former first floor sale rooms. Inside the rear cart entrance, a loading area with cross beams carried on cast-iron brackets, and round-arched openings to brick vaulted bays on each side. Wooden floor structure carried on cast-iron wall brackets, with wooden brackets in the basement, and intermediate cast-iron columns. Upper floors have an unusual suspended floor structure. Several original glazed screens and doors. c1862 addition has similar structure. c1865 addition has an internal porter's lodge and time office, and a double arch with central column giving access to a stone winder stair. Riveted wrought-iron main beams without brackets. c1880 addition has stone dogleg stair with cast-iron balustrade. Steel cross beams and central cast-iron columns. Wooden truss roofs of various types. This building is important not only for its architectural merit but because it was regarded, when new, as an exemplary undertaking, providing an unusual number of welfare facilities. With its additions, it reflects the development of the lace industry in its most successful period, and its structural features illustrate the evolution of techniques of industrial building. (English Heritage Relocation....Extract From Report: Alan Baxter & Associates: LONDON: 191-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 232; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine ; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 10-12).

Listing NGR: SK5762639840

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Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 232
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Thomas Chambers Hine An Architect of Victorian Nottingham, (), 10-12

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