19 And 20, Broad Street

BROAD STREET (East side) Nos.19 AND 20 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (East side) Nos.19 AND 20 including front block of YMCA) 05/08/75

GV II

Hostel with associated shops and public rooms. Dated 1887. By TB Silcock. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Narrow street frontage with shops to ground floor, offices above and hostel behind. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attic, three bays. Ground floor with horizontal rustication on four framing pilasters. Plain two light shop windows flank recessed central doorway with semicircular voussoir head and shallow hood on console brackets. Giant Ionic order of fluted pilasters through first and second floors, centre bay being set slightly forward and crowned by pediment. First floor windows plain plate glass sashes in moulded architraves, with keyed heads and cornice hoods on consoles. Second floor windows plain plate glass sashes with eared architraves. Below windows inscription JUBILEE MEMORIAL BUILDING. Entablature with proud lettering YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Dentil cornice, balustraded parapet. Mansard roof with gabled dormers. Rear elevation not seen. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: This building was opened in response to Queen Victoria¿s Golden Jubilee of 1887, but was designed in an unusually contextual manner for the period, which drew on Palladian precedents.

Listing NGR: ST7500965163