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Proposed Sites

 

Here are listed possible sites I am thinking to use for my final project rehabilitation centre for children with scoliosis.

55-59 Castle Boulevard Nottingham

 

Grade II listed building

 

This building was built in 1894 as a warehouse for paper merchants Simons & Pickard by Nottinghams’ architect Watson Fothergill. The building was restored and converted in 1984.

All images taken by Milda Danenaite on 6th January, 2015

Buildings description:

 

‘Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped artificial slate roofs. The front, and the attics of the returns, are in red facing brick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 11 x 13 bays. 4 ranges enclosing a rectangular courtyard. Front range has a central feature flanked by square tower porches with octagonal spires, and square corner towers with pyramidal roofs. Central cart entrance with steel lintel, and above it, a 5-light cross casement. Porches have rock-faced stone plinths and single windows, slightly varied, on each floor. Left porch has ashlar steps to side door. Side bays, 3 windows, have paired sashes below and cross casements above. Corner towers have segment-arched cart entrances. Attic has continuous fenestration, with groups of 3 round-arched windows. The other ranges, divided by pilasters, have regular fenestration with segment-arched cast-iron casements. Attic storeys have round-arched windows in pairs and triples. Attached to a rebated rear corner, a round chimney stack. Courtyard, now glazed and converted to atrium, has similar fenestration, mainly original. INTERIOR has inserted ceilings and partitioning. Some round cast-iron columns. Outside, attached cast-iron railings.’

(English Heritage, 2014)

 

J.B.Spray & Co.
Nottingham

 

Grade II listed building

 

c1870 J. B. Spray & Co Includes: Russell Street Mill, Tenement lace factory, now disused. This building was used at various times by the Raleigh Cycle Co. and by JB Spray, garment manufacturers. 

Buildings description:

 

'Red brick, with blue brick, moulded brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Plinth, machicolated eaves, coped gables. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements with segment-arched polychrome heads. 5 storeys plus attics; 13 bays. Russell Street front has at each end a canted stair turret with staggered round-arched margin light windows. On the 4th stage, a dormer with coped gable. Canted hipped roof with finial. In the centre, regular fenestration, with the name "JB Spray & CO." in faience tiles between the second and third floors. Attics have clerestory with continuous wooden framed glazing bar windows. Rear has similar fenestration.’ (English Heritage, 2014)

 

Victorian Mill, Russell St.
Nottingham

 

 

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