Barclays Bank and Barclays Bank Chambers
BARCLAYS BANK AND BARCLAYS BANK CHAMBERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
James, R B, Whitchurch A Short History, (1979), 6
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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