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Derby Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 5BA

View towards Nottingham City Centre taken from Canning Circus.

A pair of late 18th century town houses masquerading as a single double-front house. Converted to office use in the later 20th century. No.61 (at least) reconverted to residential use in the early 21st century. Listed Grade II.

Shop and office/warehouse development, 1898, by architects Samuel Dutton Walker and John Howitt of Nottingham. A more coherent treatment to the range than their earlier block lower down Derby Road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6228879 . The shopfronts have undergone more extensive 20th century makeovers than many of those lower down. Listed Grade II.

Grade II listed. Listing number 1270850. Shops and warehouses. 1898. By GS Doughty and John Howitt of Nottingham for J Wright & Son. Altered mid and late C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with various stacks. Renaissance Revival style. Polychrome bands, moulded sill and lintel bands to the upper floors, moulded cornice and frieze, coped gables with finials to the side bays. Windows are mainly original sashes with glazing bar top lights. First and second floor windows have shaped lintels. 3 storeys plus attics; 10 bays, 24 windows arranged 3:2:2:2:3:3:2:2:2:3. Symmetrical front, slightly stepped. Ground floor has mainly original openings divided by panelled pilasters, with gabled brackets to fascia cornice. Nos 110 and 112 have mid C20 stucco shopfront. Nos 116, 118 and 122 have largely original shopfronts with recessed side doors and plate glass windows. Above, in the centre, a double bay defined by angle pilasters with gabled caps, and shouldered coped gable. 2 floors with 2 tripartite windows. Attics have 2 tripartite windows with elliptical arched polychrome heads. Side bays have similar fenestration, with 2 windows on each floor. End bays, slightly projecting, have angle pilasters with gabled caps, tripartite windows, and 2-light windows to the attics.

The first section of Derby Road which climbs from the end of Upper Parliament Street to Canning Circus has been on-way out of the city for at least 35 years. Inward traffic uses Wollaton Street to the north. All the four storey buildings on the left are grade II listed.

Some very tall Victorian buildings on Derby Road (A610) although part of their grandeur seems to have been diminished by the adjacent peach-coloured Cantonese restaurant that has been allowed to open alongside of them.

The road markings point to Alfreton Road, Ilkeston Road and Derby Road, and various M1 junctions. On an overcast Spring Bank Holiday Monday morning this busy road was unusually free of traffic.

Surviving on an otherwise heavily restyled shopfront. These are clearly pigs, but other animals on the same building http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6228900 are less readily identifiable, possibly sheep, so maybe the premises were originally a butcher's shop.