The Lanes

The Lanes is a house and shop, now used as shops and a restaurant, built in the mid-19th century. It was altered between 1881 and 1884 by RC Sutton of Nottingham for Jesse Boot and was restored and converted around 1980. The building is constructed of red brick with cast-iron shopfronts, ashlar dressings, and a slate roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The ground floor features an altered shopfront with twisted cast-iron columns that frame a recessed central entrance, flanked by plate glass windows. To the right, there is an inserted entrance. The first floor has a full-width glazed verandah supported by cast-iron brackets and twisted columns. Above this, there are three pairs of segment-arched plain sash windows with keystones, and above them, three pairs of smaller plain sashes. The interior has been remodelled but retains a matchboarded stairwell with a coved ceiling and a clerestory roof on wooden brackets. This building was the first chemists' shop opened by Jesse Boot, as noted on an information board inside.