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Former Yorkshire Bank

Former Yorkshire Bank, 30, Market Hill, Barnsley, S70 2QE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191723
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: Former Yorkshire Bank
Statutory Address:: Former Yorkshire Bank, 30, Market Hill, Barnsley, S70 2QE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1191723
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: Former Yorkshire Bank
Statutory Address 1:: Former Yorkshire Bank, 30, Market Hill, Barnsley, S70 2QE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Former Yorkshire Bank, 30, Market Hill, Barnsley, S70 2QE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 34470 06381

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 9 March 2021 to amend the description, update the address, addition of a reference to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards.

SE3406SW 9/44

BARNSLEY MARKET HILL (east side), No 30, Former Yorkshire Bank

(Formerly listed as Yorkshire Bank, MARKET HILL)

GV II

HISTORY

The Yorkshire Penny Bank was named in 1860, having been initially founded in 1859 as the West Riding Penny Savings Bank by Colonel Edward Akroyd of Halifax as a philanthropic organisation aimed at providing a means of saving for the working classes. The original plans for the Barnsley branch do not survive, but the planning register records new premises on Market Hill for the Yorkshire Penny Bank were submitted to the Streets & Buildings Committee on 23 July 1902. The building has the datestone 1903. An early-C20 photograph showed the original three-storey bank building with a canted corner entrance, three bays to Market Hill and two bays to Eldon Street. At this time the second-floor windows had decorative apron panels and lintel panels carved with raised, enriched cartouches. The ground-floor frieze had YORKSHIRE PENNY BANK in raised lettering to both elevations and BANK over the corner doorway. The planning register records that plans were submitted on 5 March 1924 to extend the bank on Eldon Street. A three-storey extension of five bays was subsequently built. The Yorkshire Penny Bank changed its name to Yorkshire Bank Ltd in 1959. Later the building was used by the Yorkshire Building Society before closing in 2016. It has now (2021) been refurbished as commercial premises.

DETAILS

Former bank, dated 1903 and designed for the Yorkshire Penny Bank in a Free Classical style.

MATERIALS: ashlar stone with a Welsh slate roof.

PLAN: a three-storey corner building.

EXTERIOR: this three-storey building has three bays to Market Hill, one corner bay, and seven bays to Eldon Street with a plinth and parapets. The main doorway is in the corner bay and has a small cartouche to the lintel with the initials ‘Y P B’ (Yorkshire Penny Bank). Over the doorway is a first-floor oriel three-light window whose tiled roof extends through the second floor and is surmounted by an enriched plaque bearing the date 1903 in raised numbers. Above this, breaking through the parapet, is a clock turret with a broken segmental pediment supported on tapering pilasters which flank the clock. The clock is by Potts of Leeds and has a circular opal glass dial with black Roman numerals. The first bay of the Market Hill elevation projects slightly and rises as a gabled dormer; the ground-floor window was formerly a doorway. The two large ground-floor windows to the centre and right bays have moulded ashlar frames and aprons with later glazing. The ground-floor frieze has enriched pedimented cartouches marking the bays. The paired first- and second-floor windows are all square-headed. The first-floor windows in the left-hand bay have shouldered lintels, those to the right have cambered arches above and central colonnettes. On the Eldon Street elevation bays one, two, six and seven are similarly detailed; bays three, four and five are similar, but the first- and second-floor windows are in triple groups with pilasters marking the bays and rising into the shaped parapet. The building has tall ashlar and brick stacks.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE3447006381

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 333731
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Sellers, H B, Memoranda from a Note Book on the Yorkshire Penny Bank , (Leeds, 1909)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.