Market Bar, Nottingham

The Market Bar is a Grade II listed building (No. 1270797) and is located in Nottingham City Council's Lace Market Conservation Area.

"House and shop, now shops and restaurant. Mid C19, altered 1881-1884 by RC Sutton of Nottingham for Jesse Boot. This building was the first chemists' shop opened by Jesse Boot (information board posted inside). Restored and converted c1980. Red brick with cast-iron shopfronts, ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ground floor has an altered shopfront with twisted cast-iron columns framing a recessed central entrance flanked by plate glass windows. To right, an inserted entrance. On the first floor, a full width glazed verandah with cast-iron brackets and twist columns. Above again, 3 pairs of segment-arched plain sashes with keystones, and above them, 3 pairs of smaller plain sashes. INTERIOR remodelled, retaining a matchboarded stairwell with coved ceiling and clerestory roof on wooden brackets. (Victorian Nottingham: Iliffe R & Baguley W: Nottingham: 1977-: 61). "(Historic England).

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