Railway Goods Offices And Adjoining Covered Platforms, Gate Piers And Railings

The railway goods offices and adjoining covered platforms, gate piers, and railings are located on Carrington Street in Nottingham. Built in 1875, with alterations made between 1991 and 1993, the gate piers date back to 1848. The office building is constructed of red brick and ashlar, featuring ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof. It has four corniced ashlar stacks, a first-floor string course, a dentillated eaves cornice, and a coped parapet, all designed in the Italianate style with a polychrome banded front and a rusticated ground floor. The building is two storeys high plus a basement and has five sets of two windows. The basement includes four blocked windows with continuous granite lintels. A central projecting porch has a segment-arched opening with original double doors. On either side of the porch, there are two segment-arched cross mullioned windows with keystones. Above the porch, a round-arched plain sash window is flanked by two pairs of similar windows, all featuring label moulds and an impost band. The returns have similar window arrangements but without ornamentation.

Outside, there is a cast-iron area railing with an ashlar plinth and square piers. To the right, a curved boundary wall made of ashlar has a plinth and gabled coping. At the right end of the wall, there is a gateway with a pair of square ashlar piers topped with renewed stepped caps and lamps, which are said to be the gate piers from the original station built in 1848. On both sides of the office building, there are covered platforms with hipped roofs made of steel and cast iron, which were formerly glazed.