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Willoughby House, Nottingham
Willoughby House, 20-22, Low Pavement, Nottingham
Willoughby House, Nottingham is located in NottinghamWilloughby House, NottinghamLocation in Central Nottingham
General information
Address 10 Low Pavement
Town or city Nottingham
Coordinates 52°57′4.5″N 1°8′51″W / 52.951250°N 1.14750°W / 52.951250; -1.14750
Completed c. 1738
Designations Grade II* listed[1]

Willoughby House is a Grade II* listed building on Low Pavement in Nottingham.

Willoughby House was erected circa 1738 as a town house for Hon. Rothwell Willoughby[2] son of Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton.

The records for the Borough of Nottingham on 20 June 1743[3] report:

Permit to set palisades in front of a house. - Ordered that Rothwell Willoughby Esquire have leave to set his Palisadoes before his house in the Low Pavement out into the Street so farr as to Range with Mrs Taylors front and three feet four Inches from the Corner of Mr Stockdale's House paying two Shillings and sixpence a year for the same.

The railings and gate forming the frontage of the property are separately Grade II* listed.[4] The central segment-arched double gates with openwork piers and finials, are flanked by ramped spearhead railings and set on a low brick wall with ashlar coping. They may well have been manufactured by the local ironsmith, Francis Foulgham. They were restored in 1990.

On the death of Rothwell Willoughby in 1752 it was owned by his nephew, Rothwell Southeby Willoughby until he died in 1764. Then Ichabod Wright, ironmonger and banker, held the property until 1806. Lewis Allsopp an attorney purchased it, and it was his home and place of business until 1835.[5]

In 1848 it was taken over by the Classical, Mathematical and Commercial Academy superintended by Messrs Buddulph and Son which had previously been located in Halifax Place.[6] Shortly afterwards it became known as the Willoughby House Academy.

By 1885 it was occupied by the Borough Justices’ Clerks’ Office, 2 barrister and firms of solicitors and accountants, including an Assurance Company until the early 1970s when it was occupied by Freeth Carthwright solicitors. It was restored in 2004 by Franklin Ellis for Paul Smith.

  1. ^ Historic England, "Willoughby House (1254559)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 6 August 2022
  2. ^ Harwood, Elain (1979). Pevsner Architectural Guides. Nottingham. Yale University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0140710027.
  3. ^ Records of the Borough of Nottingham Vol. VI. 1702-1760. Thomas Forman & Sons, Nottingham. 1914. p. 180.
  4. ^ Historic England, "Railings and Gate to Forecourt at Willoughby House (1254748)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 August 2022
  5. ^ Smith, Pete (25 August 2017). "Sherwin House and the Townhouses of Nottingham in the 17th and 18th Centuries". Historic England. Historic England. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Classical, Mathematical and Commercial Academy". Nottingham Review. England. 14 January 1848. Retrieved 5 August 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.