Territorial Army Headquarters And Attached Railings

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SW DERBY ROAD 646-1/12/197 (North side) 01/06/95 No.174 Territorial Army Headquarters and attached railings

GV II

Marked `Postal Sorting Office' on OS map. Territorial army headquarters, now disused. c1910. Red brick, with ashlar ground floor and dressings, and flat asphalt roofs. Baroque Revival style. Plinth, rusticated angle pilasters, eaves cornice and coped parapet, with balustrade above the centre. 4 storeys including rusticated ground floor. 9 x 5 bays. Windows are glazing bar sashes, with elongated keystones on the first and second floors. Slightly projecting centre, 3 bays, divided by Ionic pilasters. Tripartite windows, pedimented on the first floor, flanked by single windows. Above again, a Diocletian window flanked by round windows, all with foliage surrounds. Basement has a central round-arched rusticated carriage entrance with wrought-iron gates. Side bays have 3 windows, those to the ground floor segment-headed. Returns have regular fenestration. The second bay is flanked by rusticated pilasters and has corniced and pedimented windows, that to the third floor round-arched. On the east side, an attached area railing. Inner courtyard has a central carriage entrance flanked by staircases, with a balcony and doorway above. Rear ranges, single storey, double height space, have tall round-arched openings. (Nottingam University Local History Collection: Newspaper cuttings file: 1884-1917: 194).

Listing NGR: SK5622640098