Premises Occupied By National Westminster Bank
PREMISES OCCUPIED BY NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, PRINCES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037691
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, PRINCES STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037691
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, PRINCES STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, PRINCES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Ipswich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 16212 44554
Details
1. 1260 PRINCES STREET
Premises occupied by National Westminster Bank TM 1644 NW 1/314
II GV
2. A stucco fronted building built in 1901 in a free gothic style reminiscent of the early gothic rev al. It stands on the corner of King Street and Princes Street with a high panelled parapet with quatrefoil panels and tall pointed "gothic" gables to the attic dormers. 5 window range overall, with 2 storeyed 3-light oriel bay windows on the corner and at the south end, double-hung sashes without glazing bars, in openings framed by slender "gothic" pillars. Wide panelled bands run between the storeys with pargetted panels above the windows. The ground storey has large 3-light mullioned and transomed windows and a splayed corner with an ogee arch. The parapet above the corner oriel bay is castellated with a dome surmounted by a cupola with spire and pinnacles.
National Westminster Bank forms a group with the Swan Inn and the Corn Exchange, King Street.
Listing NGR: TM1621244554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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