Birkin Building

NOTTINGHAM

SK5739NE BROADWAY 646-1/21/59 (South side) 12/07/72 Birkin Building (Formerly Listed as: BROADWAY Nos 2-6 (even) and Warehouse occupied by John Lees & Co.)

GV II

Lace warehouse, now club and offices. Dated 1855. By TC Hine of Nottingham for Richard Birkin, lace manufacturer. Built by Garland & Holland. Restored and converted c1987. Red brick, with ashlar ground floor and dressings. Roof not visible behind rendered coped parapet. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: plinth, ground floor cornice, string course, eaves cornice. 4 storeys; 8 x 3 windows. L-plan, following the curve of the street. Windows are mainly original round-arched lights with stone mullions, glazing bars and hood moulds. Ground floor windows have moulded surrounds and aprons. Main entrance front, facing east, has a central projecting entrance bay with a canted tower porch, 3 storeys, with double doors. Above, bay windows, 3 lights. Above again, a double window. On each side, single windows on each floor. To right a rounded corner, single windows, and to left, a rounded concave corner with 2 windows. Left return, facing north, has to left an entrance bay with a central segment-arched cart entrance with an inscribed ribbon above it. Above, triple windows on each floor. Under the arch, a reset 2-light window, C12, from St Mary's Church, and a plaque with the Plumptre arms. On each side, canted bay windows, 3 storeys, 3 lights, the left one with a shouldered double doorway and shafts. Above them, double windows. To right, a range with regular fenestration, 5 windows. INTERIOR: refitted c1987, has cast-iron columns to wooden floor beams. This building stands on the site of Plumptre House, 1730, by Colen Campbell, demolished 1853. A major example of Hine's commercial buildings. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 218; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Thomas Chambers Hine; an architect of Victorian Nottingham: Nottingham: 10-12).

Listing NGR: SK5764739711