15 and 17, George Street is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Office. 3 related planning applications.
15 and 17, George Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-gutter-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 15 and 17, George Street, City of Nottingham, NG1 3BH
- OS grid reference
- SK 575 400
- Coordinates
- 52.95448, -1.14539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 17 George Street is an architect's office, now a solicitor's office, built in 1895 by Watson Fothergill for himself. The building features elaborate polychrome work, constructed of red brick with ashlar and blue brick dressings, topped with a plain tile roof that has a tile crest. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style, showcasing a blue brick plinth and a first-floor band. The structure has two storeys plus attics and a five-window range.
Most of the windows are wooden framed cross casements and plain sashes with leaded glazing. The asymmetrical front includes, on the left, a board door in a shouldered opening with shafts. To the right, there are two segmental arches with a grey granite column, which contains a late 20th-century panelled door and window, followed by a basket-arched passage entrance. On the left, a two-light window features plate tracery. Above this, to the left, is a machicolated turret with three trefoil-headed windows under gables, topped by an octagonal spire roof and two steep-pitched hipped lucarnes with crests and a finial.
To the right, four trefoil-headed windows with clustered shafts are present, with the figure of a medieval architect between the left pair and busts of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and Street between the others. The names of Scott, Burges, and Shaw are inscribed on the building. Below the windows, there are four reliefs depicting building construction. Above, in the centre, is a cross casement window. To the right, a timber-framed gable on brackets, with brick nogging and an arched bargeboard, frames two cross casements. This building exemplifies Fothergill's eclectic style, with its figures and inscriptions paying tribute to his architectural mentors. The ground floor was refitted in the late 20th century.
Local climate
15 and 17, George Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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