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Pilcher Gate, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 1QE

On Pilcher Gate on the edge of the lace market area. Like Image a few hundred metres away it is an understated example of the highly successful Nottingham architect Watson Fothergill's work. Built in 1889 it was listed with Grade II status in 1996

Building by the architect Watson Fothergill.

Aka Milbie House. By Watson Fothergill, 1889. As Pevsner remarks, one of his more restrained designs but all high quality work. Grade II listed. 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. Now flatted offices.

Milbie House, 33 Pilcher Gate, was built for a lace manufacturer, Mr Doubleday, in 1889. For the whole building, see Image For more about Fothergill, and photographs of most of his buildings, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill .

See through the neglect and one finds a plain but dignified Georgian facade of c1807, the product of a remodelling of a late C17th house (apparently making it the oldest residential building in Nottingham), altered again in the late C19th when it was converted into a lace warehouse. The boarded-up windows make the front resemble an architectural drawing. Grade II listed. A number of redevelopment schemes have fallen by the wayside, demolition has been proposed but happily has not, at least so far, come to fruition.

This is one of the less flamboyant buildings by Watson Fothergill. It was built for a lace manufacturer, Mr Doubleday, in 1889. Image] and Image] may be of interest. For more about Fothergill, and photographs of most of his buildings, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill .

The building in the centre stands on the site of Watson Fothergill's first warehouse design, built for A J Wooton in 1882. Opposite another survives http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727991 .

The red-brick building, seen from the first floor of the Lace Market Car Park, was built as a lace warehouse. It is Grade II listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458493-milbie-house-#.VfWBECiwHZY . For more about Fothergill, and photographs of most of his buildings, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/The-Buildings-of-Watson-Fothergill .

A mixture of renovated, run-down and modern properties line this stretch of St Mary's Gate looking in the direction of St Mary's Church in the Lace Market quarter.