Colston House

Colston House is a building located on Derby Road in Nottingham, constructed in 1878 by RC Sutton for Dr. Claude Taylor. This Italianate-style structure features red brick with terracotta dressings and a hipped slate roof, complete with a corbelled side wall stack. The building has a plinth and a modillion eaves cornice, with windows on the upper floors that have aprons. It is two storeys tall and has a three-by-three window arrangement.

At the corner of the building, there is an original wooden shopfront that wraps around both fronts, featuring pilasters and a dentillated fascia cornice. The shopfront includes renewed double doors beneath an original swan-necked pediment and cartouche. On either side, there are plate glass shop windows with moulded arched heads, elliptical on the left and round on the right.

The Derby Road front displays an altered shopfront to the left, beneath a cornice, with plate glass windows. Above this, there is a square brick oriel window with three lights and a parapet. On either side of the oriel, there are similar two-light sash windows with cornices. Above, there is a recessed central bay with 20th-century glazing, flanked by segment-headed two-light sashes.

On the right return to North Circus Street, the ground floor features a central plain sash window and a doorway with sidelights beneath a common pediment. To the right of this doorway, there is a side entry. Above, a central sash is flanked by pairs of sashes with cornices, and further up, there is similar fenestration with segment-headed windows. The second floor may have been used as a photographic studio.