47-48 High Street
47-48, High Street, DN1 1UR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151427
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 47-48 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 47-48, High Street, DN1 1UR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151427
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 47-48 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47-48, High Street, DN1 1UR
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:
- 47-48, High Street, DN1 1UR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57470 03299
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 5703 SW
6/57
TOWN OF DONCASTER
HIGH STREET (south side)
Nos 47 and 48
(Formerly listed as Nos 47 and 48, Trustees Savings Bank)
1.10.76
GV
II
Bank. c1920 in Greek Revival style. Portland stone with graduated Westmorland slate roof. Two storeys with attic storey and attics. Four bays to High Street and five to Priory Place, with recessed rounded entrance bay to corner. Both elevations with deep tooled plinth and fluted giant Ionic half columns in antis to ground and first floors articulating the bays, except to right bay of High Street elevation which is recessed and not part of the composition. Windows are recessed behind the columns.
Corner bay has flanking anta; to ground floor it has a large curved doorcase with original glazed doors in carved timber surround, thin pilasters to reveals supporting carved cornice with panel over carved with Classical scene, all set in architrave with honeysuckle and acanthus leaf frieze and moulded cornice. Curved unequally hung nine-pane first-floor sash above in architrave over sill band decorated with a Vitruvian scroll. Wide entablature with dentilled cornice over. Similar sash above to attic storey with moulded cornice and low parapet over.
Priory Place elevation and three left-hand bays of High Street elevation have large twelve-pane sashes below cornices to ground floor and unequally hung nine-pane sashes over Vitruvian scrolled sill band, broken by the columns, to first floor. All sashes set in moulded architraves. Wide entablature with stepped and moulded lower section to frieze, dentilled cornice and lion rainwater heads supported by the columns. Attic storey with unequally hung nine-pane sashes in simpler architraves. Continuous moulded cornice and low parapet. Attics with flat roofed dormers. Hipped mansard roof, with end stacks.
Right bay to High Street has double-leaf panelled doors in moulded architrave to ground floor and six-pane sash in architrave, set in blind semi-circular headed recess, to first floor with Vitruvian scroll sill band. Cornice above and attic storey with similar six-pane sash, further cornice and parapet to top.
Interior of banking hall has original grid beamed ceiling supported by screen of Ionic columns, rear doors with dentilled segmental pediments, marquetry panels below the windows and panelled marble entrance lobby.
Listing NGR: SE5747003299
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335053
- 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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