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Campus Description

Our campus in the Lace Market is made up of a number of buildings — the largest and most impressive being the iconic Adams Building.

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 and our HE centre.

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.

Address/Map

  • Nottingham College - Adams Building
  • Nottingham
  • NG1 1NG

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Contact Information

Nottingham College Adams Building
Stoney Street
Nottingham
NG1 1NG

Telephone: 0115 9 100 100

Head of Centre: Vickie Nardoni

Travel Information

By bus
There are bus stops a short walk away, and the site is easily accessible by the majority of Nottingham's bus routes.

By tram

Lace Market tram stop is about 2 minutes walk from the Adams Building.

By rail

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

By car

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

Other Facilities

  • 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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