Old Bank House
OLD BANK HOUSE, 42, LEIGH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168662
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BANK HOUSE, 42, LEIGH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168662
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BANK HOUSE, 42, LEIGH HILL
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:
- OLD BANK HOUSE, 42, LEIGH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Southend-on-Sea (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh-on-Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84128 85682
Details
LEIGH HILL 1. 5219 ELEIGH-ON-SEA No 42 (Old Bank House) TQ 8485 6/53 1.1.73. II 2. A C18 timber-framed and plastered house, altered and added to in the C19 and C20. The rear part is weatherboarded. The house stands on steeply sloping ground with 2 storeys on the north and 3 storeys on the south. A later C19 brick addition with a parapet was built on the east side and a 2-storey music room and library was built on the south side (1912-13). The north front has 2 window range to the original house and 1 window range to the addition, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey has a 3-light window. The south addition has a large mullioned and transomed splayed bay rising through 2 storeys, with leaded lights. On the east side there is a 5-panel door with the upper panel glazed, with panelled architrave and corner roundels with lions heads. Roof slate, hipped. The interior has a number of C18 features including a doorcase with shouldered architrave and a moulded panel with the words "Ye Old Bank House" and carved enrichment, a staircase with cut strings and carved spandrels, turned balusters and a "Corinthian" newel post and a mantelpiece. The music room, now a studio, has Art Nouveau features.
Listing NGR: TQ8412885682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 122905
- 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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