Brunt'S Buildings

MANSFIELD

SK5361 LEEMING STREET 924-1/5/51 (East side) Nos.34-42 (Even) Brunt's Buildings

GV II

Includes: Nos.4 AND 6 TOOTHILL LANE. Office building with shops below. Dated 1915, with late C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar and concrete dressings with slate roofs, coped gables and single gable and 3 ridge stacks with stone bands and coping. Quoins, first-floor lintel band, modillion eaves. 3 storeys and 2 storeys; 9 x 10 windows. On corner site with angled corner feature. Windows are mainly 15-pane glazing bar sashes to the first floor, and 12-pane sashes above. Some have single-pane lower sashes. First-floor windows have keystones. Corner feature has banded pilasters with cornice breaks. Composite sash with moulded surround and cornice, and above, a round-headed niche containing a life-size sculpture of man in late C17 costume. Above again, square clock turret with corner volutes and clock face set in panel, topped with modillion cornice, square lead dome and weather vane. Leeming Street front has 2 projecting bays each with 2 sashes on each floor, topped with dentillated pediments, each with a half-round tablet inscribed "Brunt's Buildings". In centre of each bay, cartouche set in leaves, the left with arms of the Dand family, the right with inscription. Between projecting bays, 2 windows on each floor, and beyond, on either side, a set-back bay, the left with single window on each floor, the right with 2. Toothill Lane front has 3-storey block to right, 4 windows, with projecting central bay under pediment containing a half-round datestone. 2 windows on each floor. On either side, single windows on each floor. To left, a 2-storey range, 6 windows, with a slightly projecting central bay, 2 windows, under a plain pediment. Ground floor has continuous run of shop fronts and shop windows along both fronts, linked by rounded corner. Original wooden pilasters with curved double brackets and moulded square hoods, and continuous dentillated cornice. 3 right-hand bays to Leeming Street have cornice removed. Toothill Lane front has plain cart entrance in second bay. Erected by trustees of Brunt's charity on site of the house of one Rowland Dand (inscription on Leeming Street front).

Listing NGR: SK5395361217