Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Adams Building, Nottingham at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4680301

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