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Fowler Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 4JW

Some have been split into apartments and most have had loft conversions.

Built in 1897, Woodborough Road. The listing currently on the wikipedia page for the Nottingham architect Watson Fothergill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_Fothergill , who was very active at that time, claims that this building is one of his. It is not at all in his usual style and I had grave doubts about that the accuracy of the listing. However Ken Brand's excellent little book - Watson Fothergill, Architect (Nottingham Civil Society) confirms that the building is his design. Far more recognisable is his other almshouse commission: Image Update Sept 2011: My doubts have been confirmed by Darren Turner of Jackson Design. A copy of the plans for this building have "turned up in the Archives" and the design is by Arthur Brown the Borough Surveyor in 1896.

On Woodborough Road built in 1897 now rented flats. To the right can be seen Image For a closer view of this building see Image

Turner, D., believes these replacement almshouses – the Lambley Almshouses – to have designed by Arthur Brown (1851-1935), Nottingham Corporation’s Engineer. (http://theworksofwatsonfothergill.weebly.com). This particular row, built in 1897 and consisting of twelve single-bedroomed dwellings, was built as a replacement for The Lambley Hospitals (i.e. almshouses) that existed at the summit of Derby Road. It seems that a charitable body - based upon the wealth of an estate in Lambley, Notts - financed the construction of the original complex of 22 rooms and various communal facilities for deserving burgesses, or widows of burgesses, in Derby Road location. These however, were be replaced c.1896.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the brick wall pier on the boundary wall of the (former?) almshouses near the right hand side of the image

A view of Alexandra Court from the opposite side of Woodborough Road, NG3. The older building in its shadow appears to have been converted into a number of small flats/studios although at present the access door at the side of it is gated and locked. The skylight on the roof of this smaller building suggests that if it was not originally built or used as a coach house for a nearby house it could, perhaps, have served as a utility building in the past e.g. a laundry or public baths? An unmade (and unadopted?) road extends along the side of this older property, leading to several very large Victorian houses in extensive grounds. One of the houses has planning permission for a number of smaller houses on it.

In ascending this section of Woodborough Road (B684) towards Mapperley this first building is the former coach house associated with the residence of John Player, the tobacco giant, that is situated further up on the road on the left where the cars are parked. The coach house is currently used by a light industrial enterprise. The former Player home now houses the Nottinghamshire Hospice. The road branching off to the left behind the lamp post is The Crescent and the property with the tall chimney was formerly a gatehouse.