Peacock Hotel, Nottingham

Built in the 1850s the Peacock was an Home Ales house (Whitworth 2010). In 1894, it was a fully licensed establishment under Henry Handbury (Wright). The Peacock is a Grade II listed building (No. 1254757) and is in Nottingham City Council's Arboretum Conservation Area. It has an heritage interior rated by CAMRA as being of Regional Importance. This three-storey pub of brick appears to have had a quality refit in the inter-war period. The front door leads to an inner lobby with a window that was probably an off sales in the past. The lounge is little altered since about 1930 and retains carved bench seating throughout with turned legs and moulded arms, a couple of draught screens/baffles near the door to the servery, panelled frieze above the seating with wooden studs, terrazzo and wood surround fireplace, and Art Deco-style doors. The public bar was two rooms in the past and has good-quality fittings such as a bar counter with double columns and capitals but they only date from a refurbishment in 1993. There is what looks like an old glazed publican's office towards the rear of the bar servery. Note the splendid set of etched windows with a peacock motif - no doubt some are quality replacements (www.heritagepubs.org.uk)."Public house. c1850, altered mid and late C20. Brick, with rendered ground floor, and slate roof with 2 brick stacks. Painted ashlar dressings. Plinth, first floor sill band, moulded eaves. Windows are mainly original, with wedge lintels to the first floor. 3 storeys; 3 x 2 windows. Corner site, with rounded corner entrance bay. Corner bay has a blocked doorway with splayed brackets to rounded cornice. Above, a glazing bar sash with moulded surround and bracketed cornice, and above again a similar window with moulded surround flanked by brackets to the eaves. Mansfield Road front has a central doorway with pilasters and overlight, flanked by 2-light plain casements with wooden transoms and stone shafts. Above, 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. Left return has similar irregular fenestration, with a blank on the 2 upper floors. INTERIOR: largely original, has panelled plaster ceiling with cornices. Right bar has panelled wainscotting, and original fitted benches with bell pushes" (Historic England). [Nottingham City Council, St. Ann's Ward / Nottingham East Parliamentary Constituency]