Colston House

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SE DERBY ROAD 646-1/13/170 (South West side) Nos.21, 23 AND 25A

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Includes: No.1 Colston House NORTH CIRCUS STREET. 3 shops and offices. 1878. By RC Sutton of Nottingham for Dr Claude Taylor. Red brick, with terracotta dressings and hipped slate roof with a corbelled side wall stack. Italianate style. Plinth, modillion eaves cornice. Windows to upper floors have aprons. 2 storeys; 3 x 3 windows. At the corner, an original wooden shopfront, returned on both fronts, with pilasters and dentillated fascia cornice. Renewed double doors under original swan-necked pediment and cartouche. On each side, a plate glass shop window with moulded arched head, elliptical to the left, round to the right. Derby Road front has to left an altered shopfront under a cornice, with plate glass windows. Above, a square brick oriel window, 3-lights, with parapet. On each side, a similar 2-light sash with cornice. Above again, a recessed central bay with C20 glazing. On each side, a segment-headed sash, 2 lights. Right return, to North Circus Street, has on the ground floor a central plain sash, and to right a doorway with sidelights under a common pediment. To its right, a side entry. Above, a central sash flanked by pairs of sashes with cornices, and above again, similar fenestration with segment-headed windows. The second floor may have been used as a photographic studio.

Listing NGR: SK5677940019