Broadleys Vaults Public House

Broadleys Vaults Public House is a public house and restaurant dating from around 1789. It is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a wide front with a shallow design and a high mansard roof, with a short return to Barton Street, where it adjoins the former Trim Street Unitarian Chapel.

The structure has three storeys, an attic, and a basement. The main façade includes a pair of tripartite windows flanking a central single bay above the entrance door. Most windows are twelve-pane sashes. There is a small central dormer and flanking dormers with paired casements, all featuring glazing bars, positioned above the central sash and flanked by tripartite sashes. The second-floor windows have blind lights on either side of the twelve-pane sashes, while the first-floor windows feature full-width pediments formed by slightly raised mouldings, with the right-hand window having blind outer lights. The ground floor has another tripartite window with blind outer lights and a smaller tripartite window with a plain sash to the right. The entrance is a centrally located panelled door with a deep transom light.

The building has a small plinth that dies to the right, a platband above the ground floor, sill bands on the first and second floors, and a frieze with a cornice, blocking course, and parapet, all returning to a small splay with blind lights at each level. The splay and the short return feature parish boundary markers S M P and S P P P on the platband. The right-hand end has a coped party division with a large stack, and there is a further stack to the rear on the left.

The interior was not inspected. The property faces Saw Close and is an important part of the surrounding area, which includes the Theatre Royal. It was once part of a longer terrace, which includes Gascoyne House, but was altered by a later refacing of the central range in the street.