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The Adams Building is an impressive six-storey building in the heart of the Lace Market and dates back to the 1800s as a former lace mill.

This former lace mill from the 1800’s was once the centre point of the UK’s world renowned lace manufacturing industry and you can really feel the history of the place as you walk through the building. Thomas Adams who designed the building and ran the lace warehouse was a kind and conscientious boss, by Victorian standards! He built a chapel in the building for workers to participate in morning worship and the original stained glass windows are still there today. 

Today the building is home to Fashion & Textiles, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Hair and Beauty, some of our Access to HE courses.

The building itself is some seven floors and in our fashion and textiles rooms right at the top of the building, you can enjoy some amazing views of the city. Old winding staircases give the building a real distinctive feel and our students tell us it makes them feel like they are in Hogwarts!

Within the Adams Building is our 16 Stoney Street campus and over the road is our art and design centre, housed within another lace mill at 25 Stoney Street.

Tour the facilities at our Adams and Stoney Street campuses!

Home to our Art and Design, ESOL courses, Fashion and Textiles and Hair and Beauty courses.

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Address/map

Address information:

Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1NG
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Assistant princpial

Vickie Nardoni

Vickie Nardoni

Assistant Principal - 25 Stoney Street, Adams Building, Haydn Road and Wheeler Gate

Facilities

Commercial Salons

The fully equipped hairdressing, barbering and beauty salons, located at the Adams Building and Wheeler Gate, are open to the general public which means they are the perfect place for our hairdressing and beauty students to learn in a work like environment. 

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A student styling a client's hair in a salon at the Adams Building

Fashion Workshops

Our fashion students use the original lace lofts up in the Adams Building, where textiles heritage meets the future of fashion.  Here you’ll find industry-standard machinery and workshops, plus light and airy workshop and studio spaces where you’ll have the freedom to let your imagination run wild, and the support to allow your creative talents to come alive.

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Student using a sewing machine to sew some fabric

Learning Resource Centres

Our aim is to support your study and development needs by providing a wide range of resources to help you throughout your course.

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A computer bank within a library

Travel information

There are bus stops a short walk away on Fletcher Gate and our Adams Building is easily accessible by the majority of Nottingham's bus routes.

All green and purple line tram services pass through the Lace Market tram stop, which is a 2-minute walk from the Adams Building, accessible via the St. Mary's Gate rear entrance.

Nottingham Railway Station is a short walk from us. For further information on train times and operators check online at thetrainline.com

There is no on-site parking but there are a number of multi-storey car parks within a minute's walk of the campus. The nearest car parking facility is Lace Market. For more information about car parking in Nottingham please visit nottinghamcity.gov.uk/parking

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Food and Drink at the Adams Building

The Adams Building has its own Food for Thought refectory offering a wide range of hot and cold food, drinks and snacks.

Plus, with the centre being situated in the heart of Hockley and the Creative Quarter (also known as 'Nottingham's Soho') you'll never be short of coffee shops and cafés for relaxing and meeting up with friends.

Library

The library has a range of desktop PC and laptops, all equipped with the Microsoft Office applications and the Internet. PCs are available on a drop-in basis and are also pre-bookable for up to three weeks in advance. You can even borrow items such as cameras and headphones.

Free WiFi is also available throughout our libraries along with scanning facilities and colour and black and white printers and photocopiers.

There are a range of study spaces in the library, whether you need independent study space or a group working area.

Our qualified and experienced staff are on hand to help you with your day-to-day studies, including help with finding information, researching a topic, using the PCs, creating documents and presentations, compiling bibliographies and reference lists. We also demonstrate how you can use and search our range of online resources, in 1-1 or group sessions.

What's more, we have an extensive collection of online resources available for access 24/7!

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