Former Lenton Vicarage

The former Lenton Vicarage, built in 1842, was likely designed by A.I. Stevens. It is now converted into flats. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a patterned tile roof, featuring two side wall stacks partly rendered. It has a plinth and coped gables with kneelers. Most windows are glazing bar sashes with stone surrounds and mullions.

The vicarage is two storeys plus attics and is arranged as three bays wide by three bays deep. The left-hand side features a projecting gabled wing with a canted bay window of seven lights. Above the bay window are two-light mullioned windows on each floor. To the right of the wing is a Tudor-arched doorway with a renewed label mould, door, and fanlight, above which is a two-light mullioned window. A single window is present on each floor to the right of a truncated side wall stack. The left return has a late 20th-century central porch flanked by single windows, with a mullioned window above and a through-eaves dormer with a coped gable to the left. A 20th-century two-storey addition is on the far left.

The building has historical significance as the former home of Helen Kirkpatrick Watts (1881-1972), a prominent Nottingham suffragette who resided there from 1893 when her father became vicar. She was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and was arrested on several occasions for suffrage-related activities, including attending a march in London and protesting prison conditions in Leicester Gaol. The vicarage is included for group value. The list entry was amended in 2018 to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act.