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Heathcoat Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 3AF

View of Heathcote Street from The People's Hall (First Floor). The vehicles are facing in the direction of the Goosegate junction.

The Grade II-listed building behind the parked cars was originally called Morley House in Beck Lane, as the street was formerly known. It was built in 1750 for Mrs Anne Morley, a member of a family of stoneware manufacturers with premises in Carter Gate. This company also made glass, a fact that gave rise to the naming of a nearby street Glasshouse Street. Mrs Morley's husband Charles died at the age of 39yrs. In 1843, The Nottingham School of Design opened in this building, to educate workers in the lace and textile industries, one of the earliest such schools in the country. Then in 1852 a local philanthropist - George Gill (1788-1855) - decided to develop part of the soon-to-be-enlarged house into The People's College, with the aim of helping working men to better themselves, hence the property's name change to The People’s Hall. In 1854 it was reconverted into private house. During some part of the C20th it housed a snooker club and a snooker equipment shop. The iron gates and railing screen in front of the property nearest to the photographer once belonged to Morley House/The People's Hall but they were later relocated to their present site (relocation date unknown). The City Council, Nottingham Trent University and a specifically focused trust are currently considering plans to repair the building and to convert it into a business centre for use by small and medium size creative and digital businesses using already awarded funds from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Architectural Heritage Fund (2019).

Sunlight and shadows on a July evening. The house in the foreground was built in 1750 and converted in 1854 for the philanthropist George Gill, the founder of The People’s College (Image]) and The Working Man’s Retreat (Image]). Now a snooker club, it is Grade II listed: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-457235-people-s-hall-#.VbN0tiiwHZY For another view, see Stephen Richards’ Image

Looking towards the Goosegate end of Heathcote Street from the first floor of The People's Hall. Most recently used as a pool hall, it is currently the subject of discussion concerning how best it might be used in the future for the inhabitants of Nottingham.

Detail of one of the gate piers. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6112437 for location and more information.

These date from c.1750. They originally stood outside the adjacent Morley House (The People's Hall) http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4107099 and were moved when Heathcoat Street was widened in 1874. Listed Grade II. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6112436

No.14, Heathcoat Street (a.k.a. Churchill House and courtyard), on the east side of the street, is a Grade II-listed late C18th house that was apparently altered internally by late C20th "restorations". The beer-related publicity sign on the outbuilding seems to suggest that it has seen service in the more recent past as a licensed restaurant/bar although it now appears to be being used residentially.

Late 18th century town house, later a shop but now again in private residential occupation. Listed Grade II. The railings and gate http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6112437 are separately Listed.

Georgian house, dated 1750, plain except for stone dressings and a fine doorcase. Jolly stepped voussoirs to the windows. The facade as a whole has been disfigured by the insertion of plate glass. Grade II* listed. Built for Charles Morley, who made his money in pottery, converted into a temperance centre, the People's Hall, for George Gill in 1854.

The junction of Heathcoat Street and Goosegate with the Adam's Building on the sky line. In constructing Phase 1 of the Adam's Building between 1854-74, the architect, T.C. Hine, included 'lace lofts' at roof level where the walls were almost entirely built from glass. These were designed to ensure that the maximum amount of natural lighting was encouraged to enter the interiors of the lace finishing and lace repair shops. This concept was deemed extremely innovative at the time and it was quickly adopted by the other lace factories in Nottingham. At roof top level a roof-light is visible, an additional method used for getting more natural light into any workshop beneath it. The Grade II-listed Adam's Building is currently being used by New College Nottingham.