It was built in 1752 as his town house by Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714-1769) of Stoke Hall, East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, a grandson of the founder of Smith's Bank in Nottingham, the oldest known provincial bank in the United Kingdom.

[3] In 1929 Evans, Clark and Woollatt added a new doorway and frontage, allowing the ground floor to be converted for retail use.

[5] Started 1 April 2019 a major refurbishment project comprising new roof, sympathetically restored attic rooms and essential internal repairs partially funded by a grant from Historic England East Midlands.

[7] The Nottingham Subscription Library was founded on 1 April 1816 at Carlton Street, in the Hockley area of the city.

This involved a team of staff and volunteers cataloguing the entire contents over a two-year period, completing the work in 2013.