3 South Road, Nottingham
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3 South Road, Nottingham
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 19 Jun 2012
Unmistakably the work of Watson Fothergill, c1881-97, the long duration suggesting more than one phase of building. It has a dramatic upper stage composed of a square tower, pyramidal roof, bargeboarded gable and conical-roofed turret, all half-timbered naturally. Grade II listed. A close-up: Image Watson Fothergill, or Fothergill Watson as he began life, is Nottingham's Victorian architectural superstar. Walking around the city, it's not long before his idiosyncratic buildings jump out. Drawing on English traditions in a style sometimes labelled as Domestic Revival, his copious use of polychromatic bands of stone, timberwork and carved detail are very distinctive. In lesser hands, a mass of features results in an overwrought jumble, but Fothergill, despite apparently never working outside Nottinghamshire, and rarely even outside the city, was clearly skilled enough to blend everything together successfully.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.949487
Longitude
-1.163525