Eastcroft Depot Workshops

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NE LONDON ROAD 646-1/7/325 (East side) Eastcroft Depot workshops

GV II

Former hide, fat and skin warehouse and offices, now workshops. Dated 1878. Red brick, with ashlar and terracotta dressings and slate roofs with coped gables. Office range has 2 gable stacks. Plinth, ground floor sill band, string courses, cogged eaves. 2 storeys; 6 x 4 bays. Central office block has 2 groups of 3 plain sashes on each floor, with an inserted door to right. Above again, a central dormer with 7 slit windows and the inscription "Nottingham hide, fat & skin market Co. Ltd. warehouse". On either side, a pointed arched cart entrance with double board doors, under a gable with 3 blank lancets. Beyond, 2 plain sashes, and to right, another gabled cart entrance. At the rear, 4 gabled workshop ranges with clerestory roofs and 3 blank lancets in the gables. East side has 3 plain sashes in each bay, with an additional parapeted bay to right and an additional cart entrance to left. INTERIOR has round cast-iron columns carrying lattice girders, and steel trussed roof with cast-iron struts. This building was associated with the nearby corporation cattle market and slaughterhouse.

Listing NGR: SK5802039104