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Broad Street Place, BATH, BA1 5LH

Viewed across Walcot Street. The large YMCA building is named International House.

At the junction of Saracen Street and Walcot Street.

Short street connecting Walcot Street and Broad Street, seen here from the Hilton Bath City Hotel.

An opulent example of Victorian Classicism, four giant fluted Ionic pilasters spread across the facade under a heavy cornice and small pediment. Its original function is carved in the frieze, and carved in the panels between the windows is "JUBILEE MEMORIAL BUILDING". Is that why it's three bays? By T.B. Silcock, 1887-88. Grade II listed. Now housing shops, Atmosphere and Detour, the latter specialising in skating accoutrements.

This strangely narrow building is the entrance to the old Corn Market in Walcot Street. It was built in the mid-1800s and stood between the agriculrutal cattlemarket and a malthouse (later to be a tram depot). Behind it is a long, two-storey, Grade II listed structure that was once the corn market. After that it was variously used as a rifle range, youth centre and family day centre before falling into severe disuse. For many years of late it was left to rot and emergency scaffolding propped it up. However, the building was given some much-needed restoration and was put on the property market for office conversion.

Really draws the viewer in! See Image for close-up.

A crop of the art on public display in Walcot Street; see Image for context.

Looking down the line of scaffolding that holds the walls of the old Cornmarket. The roof of the 1855 Grade II listed building has sagged and buckled badly and needs this support. The old Cornmarket used to be an important part of Bath's commercial life, being right next to the Cattle Market (which itself was here into the 1980s). However, its use changed over time and it was home to aircraft parts manufacture in WWII, then also a youth club, family centre and an arts facility - hence the spray art on the boardings. It was hoped that some better and more economically advantageous use would be found for it - an energy firm had been interested recently but could not commit in the recession. Hence, the area has been offered once again by the local council, finances and restricted development issues notwithstanding. See Image] for a wider view.

The most southerly of three big terraces on the south side of the street. This dates from 1755-62, making it the earliest, and was probably designed either by Thomas Jelly or Thomas Warr Atwood. Broadly standard three-bay elevations but mixed up a little with a bow and later shopfronts. The central house has a pediment, woefully undersized to make any impact on the composition as a whole. Grade II listed. The other two terraces are Image] and Image