2, 4 AND 6, BROADWAY

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE BROADWAY 646-1/21/56 (South side) 12/07/72 Nos.2, 4 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: BROADWAY Nos 2-6 (even) & Warehouse occupied by John Lees & Co.)

GV II

Lace warehouses, now workrooms and offices. c1855. Probably by TC Hine of Nottingham for the Birkin family. Altered late C20. Red brick, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Plinth, first floor cornice, string course and eaves cornice, low coped parapet. 3 storeys and 3 storeys plus attics; 3:7 windows. Windows are mainly original round-arched and segment-arched 12-pane sashes. Projecting corner block to right, 3 x 3 windows, has rebated rounded corners with single windows, that to left with a segment-arched moulded doorcase with keystone and Birkin monogram. Broadway front has a recessed central bay, and 3 windows on each floor. Right return, to St Mary's Gate, has a rendered ground floor with single and tripartite glazing bar sashes and a C20 door. Above, 3 flat-headed sashes, and above again, 3 round-headed ones. To left, facing Broadway, a block, 6 windows, with a segment-arched door to right, 4 basement openings, and regular fenestration. To left again, an entrance bay with a round-arched porch flanked by transomed sidelights with wrought-iron screens, and steps up to a round-arched door. Above, a square oriel window, 3 lights, on shaped brackets. Above again, 2 segment-arched windows. (English Heritage Relocation - Extract from Report: Alan Baxter & Associates: London: 1991-).

Listing NGR: SK5761639722