Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 16, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197388
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 16, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197388
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 16, 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, 16, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29774 37057
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE HIGH STREET 736-1/10/99 (North side) 16/12/74 No.16 Barclays Bank (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) No.16 Bristol Hotel)
GV II
Hotel, now a bank. c1830s. Painted render, and moulded stone eaves, pantile roof with brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Flat arches to windows on upper floors; 3/6-pane sashes to the second floor and 6/9 panes to the first floor where a cill band spans the facade. 3 elliptical arches with a string course at impost level; central narrower one has C20 double doors and plain overlight, flanked by wide tripartite plate-glass sash windows under elaborate elliptical fanlights with radiating and elliptical-curved glazing bars. The window to right has cash dispenser inserted in the space of the lower sash. INTERIOR not inspected. History: a photograph of 1881 shows the building to be of Flemish-bond brick with fine elliptical gauged brick arches, a large lamp on brackets over the door and BRISTOL ARMS COMMERCIAL HOTEL painted on the platband. (Squibbs P J: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester: 1988-: PLATE 127).
Listing NGR: ST2977037061
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Squibbs, P J, Squibbs History of Bridgwater, (1988)
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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