Clyde Works

Clyde Works is a tenement lace factory built in 1881, designed by Charles Wright of Nottingham for Spowage & Low. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. It has a chamfered blue brick plinth and blue brick bands, along with a moulded eaves cornice. The factory stands five storeys tall, plus a basement. The north-west and south-east facades are adorned with 22 segment-headed windows that have cast-iron glazing bar frames. The south-west entrance front includes 11 similar windows arranged in a pattern of 4:2:1:4, with six windows on the left set at a slightly lower level. There is an off-centre carriage arch with a moulded round head, a prominent ashlar keystone, and moulded impost blocks, along with a pair of large 9-panel gates. The internal courtyards feature canted brick stair projections in the cross wings, and the mill fronts have tall taking-in doors on all five floors. Inside, each mill has a row of 21 circular cast-iron columns that support wooden beams, with brackets for line shafting. Clyde Works is noted for being one of the best preserved and most architecturally elaborate large-scale late 19th-century tenement lace factories in Nottingham, featuring an unusual two-range plan.