Carlton Buildings

Carlton Buildings is a group of shops and warehouses constructed in 1881 by Samuel Dutton Walker and John Howitt of Nottingham, for WA Brown. The building is located on a wedge-shaped site at the junction of Heathcoat Street and Broad Street with Goose Gate. It is built of red brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings, some of which are painted, and has slate roofs.

The building has a plinth, a ground floor cornice, a first floor band, a corbel table, and moulded eaves. The end bays and entrance bays are defined by pilasters, with brackets supporting the ground floor. Most of the windows are original plain sashes with moulded lintels. Second-floor windows feature a linked impost band and round-arched tympana containing relief panels. The building is four storeys high with attics, and has 13 windows facing Heathcoat Street, 2 windows facing Goose Gate, and 12 windows facing Broad Street.

The Heathcoat Street front has continuous shopfronts and entrances, under a cornice, with shopfronts divided by pilasters and mainly reglazed, but retaining original mullioned top lights. Segment-arched doorways are situated in the third and 13th bays. The Goose Gate front has rebated rounded corners, each with a doorway, and single windows above. The Broad Street front has a doorway and a loading door in the first and second bays. Dormers with coped gables and sashes are situated in the attics. A gilt wooden inscription reading "Carlton Buildings" sits above the ground floor cornice. The building has undergone alterations in the mid and late 20th century.