Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University

The Waverley Building at Nottingham Trent University, originally known as the College of Art & Design, is an art college constructed between 1863 and 1865 by Frederick Bakewell of Nottingham. The building has been altered in the mid-20th century and is designed in an Italianate style. It features ashlar stonework, pink granite columns, an encaustic tile frieze, and a slate roof.

The structure has a rockfaced plinth, a rusticated ground floor, and rebated quoins, along with a minor cornice and a modillion eaves cornice supported by brackets. A replica balustrade with pedestals adorns the building. It consists of two storeys plus a basement, arranged in a 3:1:3 bay configuration. The windows are casements, and there is a central square tower porch that rises two storeys, featuring unglazed openings on each floor. Above this porch is a square tower with traceried windows, a square dome covered in fish-scale tiles, clock faces, and a turret finial. Each side of the building has three windows, with the ground floor windows being plain. The first floor windows have shafts and moulded surrounds, and there are portrait medallions of artists and the architect on the quoins. The returns of the building feature a central panelled and coped stack, flanked by single windows on each floor.

The interior was remodelled in the mid-20th century, including a concrete return flight staircase. The college was established to promote design in lace and other crafts.