The Rose Of England Public House

The Rose of England public house, together with associated caves, was built in 1898 by Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for the Nottingham Brewery Company, whose brewery stood adjacent to the site. It has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick, with a timber-framed second floor set within red brick nogging, and has blue brick and ashlar dressings, topped with gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. It is an example of the Domestic Revival style.

The exterior features a plinth, an arcaded band to the ground floor, string courses and a crowstepped gable. The main windows are cross casements, with stone mullions and transoms to the ground and first floors, and wooden cross casements with leaded lights to the second floor. The building is three storeys high, plus attics, with a three-by-one window arrangement. A corner site incorporates a squat, octagonal tower with a spire roof and finial. This tower has a gabled corner porch with a traceried bargeboard and double doors, flanked by cross mullioned windows. Above the porch, a blank bay is flanked to the left by a hipped oriel window of three lights, and to the right by a similar window set flush. The second floor has three cross casements, and above that, two hipped dormers with finials. An elaborate coped side wall stack is located to the right.

The left return, facing Mansfield Road, has two windows and a door to the left. Two hipped oriel windows are on the first floor; above that, a recessed wooden balcony with latticework balustrade covers two windows. The attics have two hipped dormers. The right return, two storeys high plus attics, displays a mullioned window and, above that, three small single windows. A late 20th-century box dormer sits above the latter.

The interior has been altered in the mid- and late 20th century but retains cross beam ceilings and cornices. The rock-hewn cellars are part of an extensive cave system on the east side of Mansfield Road, originally belonging to the Nottingham Brewery.