Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125421
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125421
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 30, 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, 30, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newport Pagnell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 87707 43966
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
NEWPORT PAGNELL HIGH STREET SP 84 SE 1/10000 Number 30 (Barclays Bank) GV II
Bank, now forming one building with number 32 (The White Horse), High Street (qv). Dated 1870, architect unknown, for the local banking firm of Bassett Son & Harris. Red brick with polychrome brick & stone dressings; stone plinth with quatrefoil openings. Pitched slated roof having lateral & axial chimney stacks with dentil bands. Symmetrical design in Gothic Revival Style. 2 storeys 7 windows. Entrances in end bays, each with a stone doorcase of paired colonettes, with deeply carved capitals, supporting a gable with fleur-de-lis finial & inset pointed arch with trefoil motif; wooden doors with herringbone panelling (left hand, 2 leaves made to appear as one). Round-arched ground floor sashes, with carved capitals supporting gauged polychrome brick heads, set behind shallow brick pointed arch arcading having stone impost bands & gauged brick arches with stone hoodmoulds & ballflower springers; rectangular stone plaques with quatrefoil ventilation openings set in spandrels. First floor sashes pointed arched with stone impost bands, gauged polychrome brick heads & continuous stone sill band having strips of white brick between windows. Central window with a 2-stage head & shaped stone hood, dated 1870, having a fleur-de-lis finial & ballflower corbels. Stepped brick cornice with stone gabled stops & moulded parapet. Interior altered to suit modern banking requirements. Bassett's Bank was taken over by Barclays in 1896, Barclay & Co having been Bassett's London agents from the commencement.
Listing NGR: SP8770543967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 45380
- 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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