The site contains a number of significant buildings, including "some of the most important" examples of 20th-century Modernist design in Britain.

[1] Over the next 70 years his son, Jesse Boot, through a series of innovations; trading only in cash, the use of large-scale industrial production methodologies, the establishment of a major distribution and retailing network including the opening of over a thousand stores allowing direct selling, and the development of pharmacies which enabled him to undercut the prescription prices previously charged by doctors; expanded the business to become one of the world's biggest drug companies.

[3] Work began immediately and Owen Williams, an architect and engineer, was engaged to design a range of buildings on the site.

[5] In the 1960s, the American firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was commissioned to design D90, the company headquarters, after Boots' executives had seen examples of their work in the United States.

[14] Jesse Boot is commemorated with a life-size bronze bust at the entrance to the boating lake in the park he donated as a civic amenity to his workers and to the people of Nottingham.