Nottingham Corn Exchange

The Corn Exchange, Nottingham

The Corn Exchange, Thurland Street, was opened in 1850. It comprises an exchange room, 77 feet by 55 feet, and nearly 40 feet high, a clerk's office, a news room, with suitable offices, and a residence for the housekeeper. The approach is by a large inner portico of colonnade, communicating with the main room by wide folding doors in the centre, and with the office and principal staircase by doors on the side. The room is lighted by a series of span roofs, entirely glazed with cast plate, and supported by truss beams with luminated bows, and with brackets resting on carved stone corbels. The iron work is made ornamental by gilding, and by being painted blue. There are forty-five stalls of elegant construction. The exterior of the building presents a substantial and respectable appearance, and is executed in brick-work, with moulded stone dressing. The style of architecture is a combination of the English and Italian, and is after the type of an old Latin school-house, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, which is said to have been built by Sir Christopher Wren. The building cost, altogether, £3,000. the news room is approached by a stone staircase, with arcades on each side, of clustered columns, which are made of polished Derbyshire spar marble. Mr William north is the Inspector of Corn Returns.

White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853

[Last updated 24 June 1997 - Clive Henly]