12, 14 And 16, Lower Parliament Street

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW LOWER PARLIAMENT STREET 646-1/14/362 (South side) Nos.12, 14 AND 16

GV II

Formerly known as: Station Buildings LOWER PARLIAMENT STREET. Shop and warehouse, now shop and offices. 1896. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham for Furley & Co., provision merchants. Altered 1925 and late C20. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings and hipped plain tile roofs, topped with an octagonal turret. Polychrome string courses, and tiled eaves canopy below the attics. 3 storeys plus attics; 2 x 5 bays. Rectangular corner site, with angled corner entrance bay flanked by bartizans and topped with a stepped gable. Stone doorcase, blank first floor, oriel window to second floor, and round-arched tripartite window in the gable. Right return, to Lower Parliament Street, has a central entrance with cast-iron columns, flanked by late C20 shopfronts. Above, 2 Diocletian windows, reglazed 1925. Under the windows, 4 terracotta sculpture panels. Above again, two 3-light cross mullioned windows. Attics have applied timber framing, and 2 hipped dormers with cross casements. Left return to Clinton Street West, has similar fenestration on the upper floors, and 4 attic dormers. Ground floor has to left a segment-arched shop entrance, ashlar and glazed tile, with mullioned overlight. (Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 13).

Listing NGR: SK5739040079