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St. James's Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG1 6FH

Designed by Edwin Hill, this establishment was opened as a Music Hall in 1877 on the site of the former Roebuck public house. A stone cross, known as the malt cross, stood at the Market Square end of the street and during the C15th and C16th that was used as a point for public announcements. Post-1914 it was used as a drapery warehouse, a carpet warehouse and a refreshment establishment. It stood empty for several decades and then re-opened in 1982 as an entertainment venue. Expensive renovations on it were completed in 1997 and again in 2014. During the most recent renovation work, a number of discoveries were made in The Malt Cross including a secret passageway leading into a C13th cave and a hidden room behind a fake fireplace that had been built into a fake wall. Along with the refurbishment of the existing bar and gallery area, the most recent project left the premises with a state-of-the-art heritage/education/tourism/arts, crafts and music centre. St James' Street, otherwise known as St James' Lane until the early 1800, was originally called Jam Gate or Jamgate.

2 houses, later warehouses and works, later shops, now a Wetherspoons pub. c1770, altered mid C19 and mid & late C20. An example of the adaptation of houses to serve as workshops and warehouses, common in the Nottingham lace and textile industries before c1850. Listed Grade II.

Entrance detail. Former shop fronts have been replaced - early 21st century - with windows in keeping with the Georgian style of the building. Listed Grade II. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6118192 for location.

Mid-Victorian Italianate, built c1870 according to the listing. Grade II listed. Now a bar, the Bla Bla Bar.

Georgian town house, c.1750 with windows remodelled c.1870, probably when shop fronts were first added, Listed Grade II. The current shop fronts are 20th century.

Music hall, now cafe, and adjoining shops. Dated 1877. By Edwin Hill of Nottingham for Charles Weldon. Restored 1982-84, and converted to cafe 1987, Listed Grade II.

A pair of late Georgian houses, c.1820 with later shop fronts, Listed Grade II.

The line lies accurately north / south. It was first laid out in the 1820s, then replaced in brass in 1834, and designed to work with a board outside the window so that a beam of sunlight would fall on the centre line of the brass strip at precisely local apparent noon, which could have been used to set clocks in Nottingham.

Lead instead of carpet; pretty hard wearing, with a date of 1752.