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High Pavement, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1HF

A terra-cotta plaque above a doorway in High Pavement, commemorating the Queen Empress's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 - the year in which Nottingham achieved city status. For an identical piece, see Brian Robert Marshall's Image An article in the May 2012 issue of "Lincolnshire Life" (http://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/a-small-tribute-to-our-first-diamond-queen ) highlights a further example in Rasen Lane, Lincoln, and reveals that these plaques were produced in 1887 and 1897, in buff and red terra cotta, by Stanley Bros of Nuneaton. "The 1897 version had a partially hollowed back, either to reduce weight or to aid fitting to the buildings." (Thanks to Bob Harvey for discovering this.) For more examples, see http://www.reginaldstanley.com/queen-victoria-plaques.php .

This is the eastern part of a house with mediaeval origins but remodelled c. 1728-33 and again in 1833 which became the Assize Judges' Lodgings and later county council offices. In the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Nottingham, Elain Harwood says this wing "looks like an Athenaeum or Literary Institute [and] housed the judges' dining room". The squat Doric columns are of cast iron. They are seen through one of the iron gateways of Shire Hall, opposite.

This Grade II listed 18th-century house was not a pub for long (and before that it was used as offices). It is to become a bistro. Image] shows it in May 2018.

Very modest Watson Fothergill design from 1898. Built as offices for E.S. Cowan.

On number 7 High Pavement.

This 1930s frontage is typical of Home Brewery's style, as is the surviving stained glass. The Cock & Hoop (originally the County Tavern) is squeezed between the former Judges' Lodgings on the left and The Lace Market Hotel on the right.

Looking towards Weekday Cross. The red-brick building is The Lace Market Hotel. The Cock and Hoop was until relatively recently The County Tavern, and originally a Home Brewery house. Beyond it is County House, mediaeval in origin but reconstructed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Opposite the Assize Courts, it was the judges' lodgings. The squat Doric pillars supporting the classical frontage of the judges' dining room are cast iron and clang satisfyingly if knocked. Overdue a face-lift, the house has recently been sold. The entrance to the wonderful Nottingham Contemporary art gallery is next to the vans in the middle distance.

Something of a hotch-potch - castellated entrance, Tudorish and Arts and Crafts elements. There is something ungainly about the whole. By J. Bindon Carter, 1883-84. Now flats I think.

Looking against the light towards Weekday Cross. Nottingham Contemporary art gallery is on the left in the middle distance.