OLD BANK HOUSE

OLD BANK HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054556
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: OLD BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD BANK HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1054556
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: OLD BANK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD BANK HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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:: OLD BANK HOUSE, MARKET SQUARE

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Castle
National Grid Reference:: SO 32366 89028

Details

SO 3289 BISHOP'S CASTLE C.P. MARKET SQUARE (north side)

11/60 Old Bank House - 28/7/50 GV II

House, now flats. Mid- to late-C18 with early-C19 alterations and addition. Red brick with coursed limestone rubble plinth and hipped slate roof. Square plan. 3 storeys. Plinth, and deep eaves; integral stack at front off-centre to right, C19 semi-integral end stack to left and stack to right at rear. 3 bays; glazing bar sashes with gauged brick heads, blind in right-hand bay; central C20 six-panelled door with 8-part rectangular overlight, pilastered surround, and consoles supporting triangular-pedimented hood. 3-bay south front. One storey red brick early-C19 addition to north with deep eaves to hipped slate roof, glazing bar sash to left and C20 six-panelled door to right, both with cement-rendered lintels. Interior: early- to mid-C18 dog- leg staircase rising 2 storeys with open string, shaped tread-ends, turned balusters (2 per tread), ramped moulded handrail, and fluted Corinthian columns as newel posts.

Listing NGR: SO3236689028

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Legacy System number:: 256970
Legacy System:: LBS

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