Salvation Army Hostel

The Salvation Army Hostel, built in 1905 by Niven and Wigglesworth, is designed in a Neo-Georgian style. It features stock brick with red brick dressings and has a steeply pitched hipped slate roof with a brick eaves cornice. A cupola with a clock and weather vane crowns the building. The hostel is two storeys high with dormers and has five windows, flanked by an advanced portion with a door on each side. The dormers have hipped roofs, while the windows below are adorned with moulded architraves and semi-circular drip moulds above, which act as pediments. The door bays are accentuated with flanking pilasters that have Ionic capitals and swags above. The entire ground floor is constructed of rusticated brick below the sill height. The doors are embellished with heavily moulded archivolts featuring keys and are panelled with semi-circular heads. The listed buildings on both sides of Garford Street are connected by the 19th-century roadway surface and form a cohesive group.