Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740SW SHAKESPEARE STREET
646-1/14/543 (North side)
Nos.2-10 (Even)
YMCA hostel and shops

GV II

Includes: Nos.1, 1A, 3 AND 3A MANSFIELD ROAD.
YMCA hostel and shops. 1937. By Cecil Howitt of Nottingham for
the YMCA. Altered late C20. Yellow brick, with red brick
diaper work and dressings, and slate plinth. Mansard and
hipped roofs, lead and plain tile, with coped gables.
EXTERIOR: continuous cornice to ground floor. Windows are
steel framed casements, with blocked surrounds on the upper
floors. 3 storeys plus attics; 12 x 3 windows. Corner site,
with balanced entrance front to Shakespeare Street, and short
return with angled corner to Mansfield Road.
Shakespeare Street front has a projecting central tower,
square, with hipped roof. Recessed tripartite entrance with
overlights, under a canted flat canopy. Above, a 3-light
window up to attic level, the lights divided by brick
buttresses. Above again, a mullioned window, 3 lights, on each
side. Ground floor, with original vitrolite cladding, has 5
windows and a door to left, and an aluminium shopfront to
right. At the corner, a late C20 tiled shopfront.
Upper floors have balanced fenestration forming 2 near
symmetrical facades. To the left seven 2-light windows and
above five taller 2-light windows. To right four 2-light
windows, and four taller windows above with inserted single
windows. Attics have 12 box dormers.
Angled corner, 2 bays, has the YMCA logo to left, and paired
windows to right.
Return to Mansfield Road has renewed shopfronts, and above,
regular fenestration. Attics have 4 dormers.
INTERIOR has ground floor hall with moulded span beams and
cornice, and roll-moulded proscenium arch.
(Scoffham E: A Vision of the City: the architecture of TC
Howitt: Nottingham: 1992-: 47).

Listing NGR: SK5725340349

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546752

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