Warehouses On The West And North Sides Of Trivet Square

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE SHORT HILL 646-1/21/556 (South side) Nos.8 AND 9 Warehouses on the west and north sides of Trivett Square

GV II

Warehouses, now workshops. c1860-70, with additions 1901-02 by HJ Price of Nottingham, and 1912 by Heazell & Sons, for LO Trivett, Ltd. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 4 storeys plus basement; 5:3 window range. 3 ranges in an L-plan, enclosing Trivett Square on west and north sides. Range fronting Short Hill has 2 facades. Left facade has moulded ashlar cornices to ground floor and third floor, and coped brick parapet. Upper floors have five 12-pane sashes with brick flat arches and ashlar keystones. On the first floor, to left, a wrought-iron sign and bracket. Ground floor, c1901, rusticated ashlar, has to left an elliptical arched carriage entrance with voussoirs, keystone, and a pair of wrought-iron gates. To right, a tripartite window with transom. Right facade has the upper floors divided by pilasters, corner pilasters with ball finials, and a shaped coped gable with a pediment containing a framed panel. On the first floor, 3 plain sashes, the central one with eared and scrolled architrave, the outer ones with brick flat arches. Above, 3 similar windows with ashlar flat arches. Above again, a round-arched cross casement with keystone, flanked by smaller segment-headed cross casements. Ground floor has to right an ashlar doorcase, with panelled pilasters and pediment, and round-arched doorway with wrought-iron gates. Range to west of Trivett Square has a projecting off-centre stair tower topped with an octagonal turret and conical roof. At the foot of the tower, an ashlar doorcase with entablature, flanked to right by 2 windows. Rear range to south, overlooking Malin Hill, early C20, 6 storeys plus basement; 4 window range. Windows are metal framed casements with concrete lintels. To right, a set back bay, 5 storeys; single window range. Windows are wooden framed cross casements. (Nottingham Industrial Archaeological Society Journal: Oldfield G: Nottingham: 1983-: 6; Salmon's Map of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1861-).

Listing NGR: SK5777239638