Bank of England
BANK OF ENGLAND, CASTLE STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1205904
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bank of England
- Statutory Address:
- BANK OF ENGLAND, CASTLE STREET
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- 2001-02-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/02432/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1205904
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bank of England
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK OF ENGLAND, CASTLE 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:
- BANK OF ENGLAND, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 34262 90392
Details
SJ 3490 SW CASTLE STREET (east side) L2 52/219 Bank of England 28.6.52
G.V. I
Bank building. 1845-8. C.R. Cockerell. Stone. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Engaged giant colonnade, tetrastyle in antis, of an unorthodox Doric order; rusticated antae. Attic storey with open pediment containing recessed central window in round- arched opening, flanked by Ionic columns with entablature and surmounted by lunette window. Balustrades to all 3 windows. Original 4-panelled doors. Return to Castle Street of 3 storeys with basement and 7 bays continues the entablature between 1st and 2nd floors, and also the heavy bracketed cornice. Its main feature is the 3 great round- headed recesses to the lower storeys which contain tripartite windows surmounted by lunettes and heavily rusticated. Iron balconies to 1st floor windows on both facades and railings to outer bays at colonnade. Banking hall is square with tunnel vaulted central aisle and 4 Doric columns and responds carrying Ionic entablature. One of Cockerell's richest and most inventive buildings.
Listing NGR: SJ3426290392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213839
- 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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