Dorothy Boot Homes And Garden Terrace Wall

This is a group of eleven almshouses built in 1908 and funded by Jesse Boot of Nottingham. The buildings are constructed of brick, with roughcast rendering, brick dressings, and decorative timber framing. They have gabled and hipped roofs covered in plain tiles, with eight ridge stacks and six side wall stacks. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival.

The buildings have a brick plinth and feature wrought-iron gutter brackets and bracket lamps. The windows are casements with wooden mullions and transoms. Doors are arched. The almshouses are single-storey with attics, arranged in a roughly half-butterfly plan with intentionally irregular facades.

The central block has a large, projecting gable with close-studded decoration, sheltering a verandah with two canted bay windows flanked by doorways. This gable is pierced with two windows. To either side of the central block are further ranges, each with hipped porches covering bay windows and doorways, cross casements, and large gabled dormers with two windows. One range has a square, two-storey bay window with three lights and a flat roof. A projecting range with a jettied timber-framed gable is also present. The left return features a smaller projecting gable on posts.

The front of the property is bordered by a terrace wall enclosing an sunken garden. The wall is constructed of coursed squared stone and includes pedestals with ball finials, although some of the finials are missing. The almshouses were originally intended to provide housing for veterans of the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny.