Express Buildings

Express Buildings is a building located on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham, constructed around 1900. It serves as offices and shops and is designed in the Renaissance Revival style, featuring red brick with granite and ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. The façade includes polychrome ashlar bands, a prominent cornice, and bays that are divided by pilasters. The windows are primarily original plain sashes, complete with stone surrounds, mullions, and transoms.

The building stands four storeys tall, plus attics, and has a two by three bay layout. It occupies a corner site with a rounded corner, continuous shopfronts, and a side entrance bay. The entrance bay facing Upper Parliament Street features a heavily rusticated granite doorcase with a segmental arch and voussoirs, along with a renewed door and sidelights. Above this entrance, there is a canted oriel window spanning four storeys topped with a lead dome. The first floor includes a Venetian window, with a triple sash window above it. Further up, there is another triple sash window framed by rusticated columns and a pediment, and the attic features a triple sash window with a shaped parapet.

The shopfronts are divided by heavily rusticated granite pilasters, showcasing single plate glass windows with bronze surrounds and fascia. There are glazed doors to the corner bay and the left return. The upper floors display regular courses of windows, with two lights, and the first-floor windows are segment-arched. The corner bay has three windows, while the rest of the building has two windows. The third-floor windows in the corner bay are supported by rusticated columns. Alternate bays feature segmental pediments above the attic windows, and shaped gables contain round windows, also adorned with segmental pediments. King Street, adjacent to the building, was formed in 1892.