Description: The house shows a quatrefoil datestone of 1617 (though the original building could have preceded this date). The same building can be seen in NTGM006634, with slight variations in details due to 'artistic licence'. The picture seen here was painted by T C Moore who painted this picture at a later date than the other one, and probably based this drawing on the earlier one by F Green (as the house had been pulled down by the time T C Moore did his drawing). There are conflicting dates given for the demolition of this building. The picture by F Green, states that Richard Hooton's House was taken down c 1845. The later picture, seen here, by T C Moore says it was pulled down c 1806. Richard Hooton was described as a tenant of Malting premises around 1827. (Interestingly, there is also a similar style house on the same street, painted by a C Hooton, which can be seen at NTGM006633.) Thomas Cooper Moore (1827 - 1901) was a nineteenth century painter, watercolourist and pen and ink artist who first trained as an architect before dedicating himself to art. He was mainly self taught in this field but later started the first sketching class in Nottingham and was a founder of the Nottingham Society of artists. Most of Moore's landscapes were produced in or around the Nottingham area. He seems to have particuarly liked drawing and painting pub and inns as wellas scenes by the local rivers and canals. During this time and later in the nineteenth century his art was exhibited in Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham and London. T. C. Moore was also the father and teacher of Claude T. S. Moore (1853-1901), who became very well known for his paintings and watercolours of the Thames and other river views. A number of Thomas Cooper Moore's drawings and watercolours are housed in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are many more of his sketches to be seen on this web-site.