35, Warser Gate

No. 35 Warser Gate is a warehouse built in 1879, now used as studios and workrooms. It was designed by T.H. Kent of Chesterfield for Rogers & Black. The building features a steel frame with concrete floors, an ashlar basement, a red brick exterior, brick and ashlar detailing, and a slate clerestory roof.

The exterior includes a plinth and a cornice at the basement level. The upper floors have windows divided by brick pilasters into round-arched bays, with mainly wooden framed casements and transoms. The building stands four storeys tall, plus a basement and attics, with an eight-window range. It occupies a corner site with an angled entrance bay. The Warser Gate front has five barred windows at the basement level, flanked by six-panel double doors, with the left door featuring a cornice. To the right, there is a single window. The upper floors have eight windows with panelled lintels between them, and the clerestory roof has continuous fenestration.

The entrance bay to the right is designed in a Baroque Revival style and consists of two storeys. It has a rusticated round-arched doorway flanked by paired pilasters, featuring a scroll keystone and an entablature. The entrance includes panelled double doors and a fanlight above. Above this, there is a tripartite plain sash window with coved mullions, also flanked by paired pilasters. The cornice has a central break and fanlight, and above it is a broken segmental pediment with a finial and volutes. To the right is a side bay, also two storeys high, with a single window that matches the style of the Warser Gate front.

Inside, the building has jack-arched concrete floors. This structure is notable for being an exceptionally early example of steel framing, as steel sections for construction were not commonly available until 1881. It also showcases an early use of in-situ concrete floors.