Bank House
BANK HOUSE, 9, EXETER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206424
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 9, EXETER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206424
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, 9, EXETER 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 HOUSE, 9, EXETER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Launceston
- National Grid Reference:
- SX3336584584
Details
LAUNCESTON
SX3284 EXETER STREET
660-1/4/60 (North side)
No.9
Bank House
GV II
Savings bank, now house. 1857 by Henry Crisp, builder William
Burt, for Launceston Savings Bank.
Stucco on rubble with granite plinth, sills and sill brackets,
parapet with moulded cornice; hipped dry slate roof with
2-stage stuccoed end stacks with moulded cornices.
Double-depth U-shaped plan plan with lean-to stair projection
to rear right-hand angle, recessed central entrance bay. C20
windows within moulded architraves with tall keyblocks;
tripartite central doorway with side-lights all with moulded
round arches springing from stepped corbels; keyblocks to
lights, 3 consoles over doorway linked to moulded mid-floor
string; pair of 2-panel doors and plain fanlight. Rear has 5
original hornless sashes with glazing bars.
INTERIOR: original features include dog-leg open-string
staircase with turned balusters, moulded ceiling cornices,
slate chimney-pieces and 6-panel doors. Entrance/stair hall
later subdivided and doorway on left of entrance hall through
former fireplace.
HISTORY: Bank house was the 1st purpose-built premises for the
Launceston Saving Bank which started on 28th January 1818, one
of the 1st of its kind in England. In 1865 some rooms, rented
by Fleetwood Kempson (solicitor) were used as reading rooms
and a club later known as the Tamar Club.
(Kelly's Directory: Directory of Cornwall: 1902-: 169).
Listing NGR: SX3336584584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Cornwall, (1902), 169
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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