Yorkshire Bank Including Yorkshire Bank Chambers Entered From Downing Street
YORKSHIRE BANK INCLUDING YORKSHIRE BANK CHAMBERS ENTERED FROM DOWNING STREET, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1068458
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- Statutory Address:
- YORKSHIRE BANK INCLUDING YORKSHIRE BANK CHAMBERS ENTERED FROM DOWNING STREET, KING STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/07063/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Sargeant. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1068458
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1991
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORKSHIRE BANK INCLUDING YORKSHIRE BANK CHAMBERS ENTERED FROM DOWNING STREET, KING STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- YORKSHIRE BANK INCLUDING YORKSHIRE BANK CHAMBERS ENTERED FROM DOWNING STREET, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD6564100075
Details
The following building shall be added:
SD 60 SE
2/66
LEIGH
KING STREET
(west side)
Nos 10 and 12
(Yorkshire Bank including Yorkshire Bank Chambers entered from Downing Street)
II
GV
Bank and attached bank chambers. C1900. Red ashlar sandstone on granite plinth;
above ground floor is brick and terracotta under Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys
and attic, 6 bays to King St. and 5 bays to Downing St. on right return; 2-storey,
3-bay bank chambers to rear, face Downing St. and are set behind iron-railed
forecourt. Main facade: doorway on right has band-rusticated pilasters and
archivolt with keystone under segmental pediment on foliated consoles. To left are
5 refenestrated openings divided by attached Doric columns set on the granite
plinth; later sign beneath cornice. 1st floor: moulded sills and cavetto surrounds
to round-headed windows divided by small triangular piers; foliated spandrels with
cartouches; frieze with lozenges beneath cornice having triangular projections at
each pier. Parapet interrupted by bay-2 dormer having 2-light window under frieze
cornice and ball-finialled gable. Bays 3-6 have similar window under large shaped
gable bearing coat of arms under segmental pediment with ball finials. Projecting
end stack on left. Right return: generally as front; the ground floor with
tripartite and 2-light openings, 2 roof dormers.
Bank Chambers: round-arched 4-panel door on left and scattered fenestration beneath
2 half-dormers with arched 2-light windows.
Listing NGR: SD 65641 00075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213552
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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