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English: The Barker Gate Warehouse at the corner of Barker Gate and Stoney Street in the Lace Market conservation area in the English city of Nottingham. Another of Fothergill Watson's distinctive designs, although befitting its original function as a lace warehouse it is not his most demonstrative work. He mixes it up, this time with bartizans, or turrets, in the corner bay (SK5739 : Doorway and staircase). Built in 1897. Grade II listed. Offices at the time, since when it appears to have been converted to flats. Watson Fothergill, or Fothergill Watson as he began life, is Nottingham's Victorian architectural superstar. Walking around the city, it's not long before his idiosyncratic buildings jump out. Drawing on English traditions in a style sometimes labelled as Domestic Revival, his copious use of polychromatic bands of stone, timberwork and carved detail are very distinctive. In lesser hands, a mass of features results in an overwrought jumble, but Fothergill, despite apparently never working outside Nottinghamshire, and rarely even outside the city, was clearly skilled enough to blend everything together successfully.