Listed Building record MDR11448 - Former Boot's Store, Nos. St Peter's Street, Derby

Former Boot's store, Nos. St Peter's Street, Derby, built in 1912. 'St Peter's Street/East Street, former Boot's store. Built 1911-12 to designs by Albert Nelson Bromley of Nottingham, and extended in 1936-38 by his firm of Bromley, Cartright & Waumsley. With pargetting, and four statues of local worthies by Percy Richard Morley Horder (1870-1944).' (1) 'Before the Boot's store was built the site was occupied by 35-38 (later 60-63) East Street and 52-55 (later 45-51) St Peter's Street. 53-54 (later 49-51) St Peter's Street was a later 18th century building, and on the corner from the late 18th century until 1878 was the Barley Mow. The store was designed in a new East Anglian Arts-and-Crafts style by A N Bromley, and the crowning glory was the four statues of "Derby Worthies" by Horder: Florence Nightingale, John Lombe, William Hutton and Jedediah Strutt. In 1935 buildings on East Street were demolished and the store was extended in 1936-38, in matching style, by Percy James Bartlett of London.' (2) From the National Heritage List for England: 'ST PETER'S STREET 1. 5170 No 45 SK 3536 SW 1/261 II 2. Dated 1912. Stucco; 3 storeys and attic in gables; 2 slightly projecting gabled bays, that on left-hand side to splayed angle; wood mullioned windows with transoms arched at centre; a Venetian window in each gable; leaded lights; decorative moulded stucco work in gables and in panels below windows; 3 niches at 1st storey with semi-circular canopies and containing small statues of local celebrities; later modillion cornice at 1st floor; tiles. Return side with additions of 1938 generally in similar style. Modern shop fronts. Listing NGR: SK3536836034.' (3)