Ymca, 141-145 Main Street, Wishaw is a Grade C listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 2003. YMCA building, shop. 1 related planning application.

Ymca, 141-145 Main Street, Wishaw

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 May 2003
Type
YMCA building, shop
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John Steel, 1912-14 with later alterations. 2-storey long rectangular-plan purpose-built YMCA building with 2 shops to ground floor, pedimented entrance bay to right, eaves cornice and stone parapet. Brick construction, faced with chanelled red sandstone to principal elevation.

NE (MAIN STREET) ELEVATION: recessed doors, continuous cornice and fascia to 2 shops to left; 3 bays to 1st floor above, that to centre canted. Pedimented bay to right with panelled pilasters; shouldered, round-arched entrance with semicircular fanlight (modern steel shutters); french doors in decorative surround at 1st floor to stone-bracketed balcony with metal railings.

INTERIOR: lobby with 2-leaf glazed inner doors. 2 depressed-arched openings (that to right now blocked by later staircase) with leaded glass to fanlights leading to Board Room; decorative plasterwork, coffering and large shallow dome with decorative stained glass leaded lights. Exposed steel trusses to roof of gymnasium/auditorium to 1st floor.

Plate glass to shops; non-traditional repalcement glazing to 1st floor. Corniced red sandstone stack with circular cans to gable.

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