Number 321 and Adjoining Frameshop

Number 321 and Adjoining Frameshop

House and former frameshop, now a single dwelling, dating from around 1800 and 1830, extended and altered in the late 20th century.

The building is constructed of brick with gabled slate and plain tile roofs. There are two gable stacks and a single ridge stack. The plan is T-shaped, with the dwelling positioned parallel to the street frontage and the workshop range extending at right angles to the rear.

The house comprises two storeys and three bays. The windows are mainly 20th century replacement glazing bar sashes; those on the ground floor front have multi-keystoned heads. The front elevation features a central doorway with a fielded panelled door below a three-pane overlight, flanked by single eight over eight paned sashes. Above are three similar first floor sashes, with the central one narrower than the others. The south gable contains a small Yorkshire sash to the left.

The attached frameshop is two storeys and three bays. Its south elevation has a central door with overlight now enclosed within a late 20th century gabled porch and flanked by single casements. Above are two wide three-light casement windows with 20th century frames, and to their right are similar smaller window openings, all with glazing bar frames. A datestone is inscribed 'TW 1830'. The west gable incorporates a datestone inscribed 1824 and now has an attached late 20th century single storey garage extension. The frameshop north wall contains two large casements and a blocked casement, together with a small late 19th century two storey single bay lean-to addition with a small casement on each floor.

The house and frameshop are shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1882 and 1900 standing in relative isolation in an undeveloped rural location. The building's footprint remained substantially unchanged until the addition of the recent garage extension. The framework knitting industry developed alongside the machine-made lace industry in Nottingham during the 19th century. Unlike lace manufacture, which developed rapidly into factory-based production, framework knitting outworking in frameshops such as this one continued well into the 1890s despite factory production elsewhere.