Barclays Bank
Barclays Bank, 11 and 12, Old Market
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126591
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- Barclays Bank, 11 and 12, Old Market
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126591
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- Barclays Bank, 11 and 12, Old Market
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, 11 and 12, Old Market
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46044 09739
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2022 to correct typos in the description and reformat text to current standards
TF 4609
6/225
WISBECH
OLD MARKET (East Side)
Nos. 11 and 12 (Barclays Bank)
10.2.69
GV
II
Bank built 1878 by Boardman of Norwich. Florentine Renaissance design. Red brick with stone dressings. Hipped slate roof with end stacks. Two storeys. Deep, moulded stone cornice, stone band and plinth with rusticated quoins. Five first floor hung sash windows with shouldered, segmental architraves with keystone. Large central three-light window divided by columns on stone cill with round-headed arches and keystones. Two windows above main entrance to right hand and larger balancing window to left hand. Double, panelled doors.
Interior has original panelling to walls, and central, large oval-planned counters. Ceiling divided by plastered beams with bands of guilloche decoration. Contemporary facade to north wing of five 'bays' and three storeys; original building possibly C18.
Pevsner, Buildings in England, p.499.
Listing NGR: TF4604409739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48432
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 499
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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