38 And 40, Market Place

A bank and offices, later shops, cafes, and offices, at 38 and 40 Market Place, Long Eaton, was built in 1901 and 1903, with alterations in the 1960s. Designed by Gorman and Ross, it is constructed in an Art Nouveau style, using painted, rendered, and pebbledashed brick with gauged brick and stone dressings, along with applied timber studding and tilework. The roof is tiled, with brick side wall stacks; the stack to No. 40 has a half-hipped shape with wide, overhanging, bargeboarded eaves, and the stack to No. 38 is hidden behind a horseshoe-shaped, coved stone pediment.

No. 38, formerly York Chambers, is two storeys and one bay. It has a large, recessed shop front to the ground floor, with the original panelled doors and a plain overlight inscribed in gold lettering, leading to the offices above. The first floor features a large, central oriel window supported on stone brackets, with a dentilled cornice and central mullion. The sash windows have a segmental headed plate glass lower sash and an upper sash with small, grid-like glazing. To either side are gauged brick turrets with hemispherical tops, dentilled near the top and decorated with bands of glazed terracotta blocks, with tall, narrow windows incorporating glazed terracotta blocks for imposts and sills. The pediment above is pebbledashed.

No. 40 is three storeys and four bays. The ground floor retains its original appearance with a three-light window to the north and a doorcase to the south, featuring a moulded segmental head with a large, mannered double keystone, and a curved transome. The doorcase also has a roll-moulded head with a keystone, but now has 1970s doors. Above the doorcase is a small, wavy grilled opening set within a cartouche. The first floor has a segmental headed panel of applied timber studding with ornamental brick nogging, with a frieze of carved timber panels instead of brick nogging. This panel accommodates four semi-circular oriel windows with grid-like glazing and moulded cornices, above which are four glazing bar casements set in wide timber surrounds with cambered heads and arched bases. Above these windows is a panel of coloured tilework with a segmental top.

The interior of No. 38 retains its original deep cornicing and boldly corniced doorcases.