Annie's Burger Shack, Nottingham

Annie's Burger Shack and the Ocean State Tavern are in a Grade II listed building (No. 1246289) located in Nottingham City Council's Lace Market Conservation Area. Ocean State is a nickname for the "State of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations", presumably from whence Annie originally comes.

Designed by architect T.C. Hine 1850-1860 as a warehouse and factory, with additions in 1882 by S.R. Stevenson for the Midland Lace Company. Red brick, with ashlar ground floor and ashlar dressings. Roof not visible behind coped parapet. Plinth, ground floor and eaves cornices, rusticated quoins. Corner block, 4 storeys; 9 x 4 windows. Windows are mainly original cast-iron glazing bar casements with round heads and linked hood moulds. Ground floor windows are mainly segment-headed, with smaller panes, projecting surrounds, and basement openings below. Symmetrical main front, to Broadway, has a recessed centre, 3 windows, with a central canted bay window, 3 storeys, 3 lights, topped with a balustrade. On each side, single windows, and above, 3 windows. Second floor right window converted to a loft door. Projecting end bays, 3 windows, have regular fenestration, with a first floor left window converted to a loft door. Central segment-arched moulded doorways with double shafts and panelled double doors. Wrought-iron gates and guards to fanlights. Outside, a short matching area railing. Rebated rounded corner bay, to right, has 2 round-arched windows on each floor, flanked by brick pilasters, and beyond, single windows. Right return, to Stoney Street, 4 windows, has regular fenestration. To right, a 6-panel door and overlight (Historic England).

[Nottingham City Council; Bridge Ward / Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency]