Pit & Pendulum, Nottingham

The Pit & Pendulum is a Grade II listed building (No. 1255205) and is located in Nottingham City Council's Lace Market Conservation Area. "Shop and offices, now public house. 1870. By Robert Evans of Nottingham for Lewis & Grundy, ironmongers. Extended in the same style 1873 by Evans & Jolley of Nottingham. Converted late C20. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Italianate style. Quoins, modillion cornice and mosaic frieze, balustrade with pedestals. Windows are mainly segment-arched plain sashes with moulded ashlar surrounds and ornamented keystones. 4 storeys; 5 window ranges, divided 3:2 by a rusticated strip. Ground floor has 5 openings divided by ashlar pilasters with coloured tile panels. Full width cornice, and above the inner pilasters, a square relief panel with segmental pediment. In the centre bays, C20 windows and shopfronts. In the outer bays, C20 doors. Above, 5 windows on each floor, the fourth floor windows smaller. On the first floor, between the third and fourth bays, a bracket clock with automaton figures of blacksmiths. Included for group value." (Historic England). [Nottingham City Council; Bridge Ward / Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency]