BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS

BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055982
Date first listed:: 01-May-1951
List Entry Name:: BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1055982
Date first listed:: 01-May-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS, HIGH STREET

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:: BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitchurch Urban
National Grid Reference:: SJ5419341533

Details

SJ 5441 8/86 1.5.51

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (north-east side) Barclays Bank and Barclays Bank Chambers (formerly listed as Barclay's Bank)

GV II

Town Hall/Market House, now bank and surgery. 1718, altered internally probably in the mid-to late C18. Red brick with painted sandstone dressing. 2-span plain tile roof. Double-depth plan. Moulded stone plinth, chamfered quoins, flanking wide brick pilaster strips, stone plat band, and moulded stone cornice, breaking forward over pilasters, and parapet with chamfered stone coping (rebuilt to front with plain coping). Brick stacks in valley and integral brick end stack to left of rear range. Pair of cowlings to rear ridge. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. 3 bays; first-floor 15-pane glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and gauged-brick heads with raised keystones. Ground-floor 3-bay round-arched arcade with stumpy Tuscan columns, moulded architraves and raised keystones. 2 left- hand bays with inserted C20 glazing. Open arch to right forming porch to ground floor,and stairs to first floor. Left-hand return front: 2 plat bands. 2 bays; first-floor 15-pane glazing bar sashes with keystones and blocked ground-floor arcade with inserted windows. Right-hand return front: rendered ground floor. Plat band. Right-hand first-floor glazing bar sash with keystone,and small wooden 2-light attic casements, that to left with segmented head. Rear: rendered ground floor. Wooden eaves cornice with cyma reversa moulding, and shaped stone kneelers to parapeted gable ends. 3 bays; first-floor 15-pane glazing bar sashes with stone cills and stone lintels. R.B. James, Whitchurch - A Short History (1979), p. 6.

Listing NGR: SJ5419341533

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Legacy System number:: 260642
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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James, R B , Whitchurch A Short History, (1979), 6

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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.