22, 24 AND 26, LISTER GATE

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NW LISTER GATE 646-1/20/323 (West side) Nos.22, 24 AND 26

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General store, now clothes shop. 1936-37. By in-house architects for FW Woolworth Ltd. Altered late C20. Steel framing with reconstituted stone facade. Roof not visible behind parapet. Art Deco style. Windows are mainly original steel framed margin glazed casements. 3 storeys plus attics; 13 window range, arranged 1:3:5:3:1. Slightly convex symmetrical facade. Ground floor has a full width shopfront, late C20, with recessed central doors flanked by plate glass windows, with tile plinth and stone veneered fascia. Above, central bay, 5 windows divided by chamfered pilasters. Between first and second floors, fielded metal panels. Attics have 3 smaller gable-headed windows. Side bays, divided by similar pilasters, have 3 windows set in a coved surround. Above, a shaped frieze and cornice, with ribbed ornament to the heads of the pilasters and between them. Sham balcony between first and second floors, and fielded metal panels below square attic windows. Above the parapet, a stylised gable with projecting central ribs and half-round coved brackets at each end. End bays have single windows, with metal panels between first and second floors, and square attic windows in coved surrounds. An unusual large scale example of the Art Deco Style. (Nottingham City Council planning registers : 25: 31,39,142,167,197).

Listing NGR: SK5727339625