National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, GRIMSHAW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244810
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, GRIMSHAW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244810
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, GRIMSHAW 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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, GRIMSHAW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 84124 32426
Details
BURNLEY
SD8432SW GRIMSHAW STREET 906-1/20/62 (North side) 29/09/77 No.10 National Westminster Bank
GV II
Bank. 1876. By William Waddington & Son. For the Manchester and County Bank. Sandstone ashlar with fishscale slated mansard roof. Florid Florentine style. Square plan on corner site, with splayed corner to Nicholas Street on the left. EXTERIOR: single storey with cellar and attic, 4 bays to each facade; with a 2-stage plinth, chunky fluted bands, emphatic bracketed and modillioned eaves cornices, parapets pierced with roundels and surmounted by gadrooned urns, and corniced and pedimented central and terminal features. The corner entrance is a tall round-headed archway with polished granite columns which have composite capitals of sandstone, carrying a richly decorated arch with a helmed figured keystone, and has a doorway with panelled convex double doors, cresting in the overlight, an enriched frieze and a tympanum containing a carved shield with raised lettering "NEC TIMIDE NEC TEMERE". Each facade has arcaded round-headed windows with fluted aprons, prominent sills on consoles, fluted imposts and enriched moulded heads with carved keystones, and roundel wreaths between the heads of the windows. The roof has tall cast-iron finials with animals. INTERIOR: square banking hall with oak panelled dado and elaborate carved oak architraves to internal doorways; walls above dado faced with white marble, with plain green marble surrounds to windows; coved and coffered ceiling with plastered cruciform beams and a large roundel in each panel; otherwise, altered. Internally linked to later addition on Nicholas Street. Forms a group with No.9 Grimshaw Street opposite (qv), the former Burnley Building Society (No.19 Parker Lane (qv)) to the east, and with the terraced town houses on Nicholas Street to the west (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8412432426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467061
- 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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