Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 20, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187766
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 20, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187766
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 20, BRIDGE 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, 20, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2015855013
Details
SP2055SW
604-1/8/16
25/10/51
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
BRIDGE STREET
(North side)
No.20
Barclays Bank
GV
II
Formerly known as: No.20 Shakespeare Gallery Restaurant BRIDGE
STREET.
Town house now bank. Rebuilt after 1641 fire, with C19 and C20
alterations. Timber-frame with brick rear wing; tile roof.
Largely C20 timber-framed facade. 3 storeys; 2-window range;
1st and 2nd floors jettied; 2 gables. Late C20 ground floor
recessed behind 2 posts to bressumer (recorded as having 2
caryatids, 1972). 1st floor has paired 18-pane sashes; 2nd
floor has late C19 four-light transomed projecting windows.
Close-studded framing; moulded barge-boards with finials. Some
timber-framing visible to left return, and ogee-headed stair
windows to 1st and 2nd floors with small-paned glazing.
INTERIOR: open-well staircase with fretted splat balusters,
moulded handrail with dentils and square balusters, some with
finials; exposed timber-framing. Recorded as having traces of
frescoes dated 1677 and earlier foundations visible to
basement (Forrest).
(Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London:
1925-: 52-4; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its
Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 17).
Listing NGR: SP2015855013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bearman, R, Stratford Upon Avon A History of its streets and buildings, (1988), 17
Forrest, H E, The Old Houses of Stratford upon Avon, (1925), 52-4
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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