The Old Penny Bank
The Old Penny Bank, Burgess Street, Leominster, HR6 8DE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255406
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Penny Bank
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Penny Bank, Burgess Street, Leominster, HR6 8DE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255406
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Penny Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Penny Bank, Burgess Street, Leominster, HR6 8DE
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:
- The Old Penny Bank, Burgess Street, Leominster, HR6 8DE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leominster
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 49492 59083
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2023 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SO4959
808-1/1/81
LEOMINSTER
BURGESS STREET (South side)
The Old Penny Bank
(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by Powell, Price & Co. Ltd., previously Listed as: BURGESS STREET (South side) Powell, Price and Co. Ltd. Insurance Brokers)
14/08/86
GV
II
Penny bank, now offices. c1870, roof raised C20. Brick; hipped Welsh slate roof with shallow pitches; C20 altered central brick ridge stack, with mouldings to corbelled band. T-shaped on plan. Single storey; two-window range: paired two-light casements with elliptical heads under moulded stucco architraves on pilasters; flanked by brick corner-pilasters with corbelled eaves. Returned sides: C20 casements in stucco panels. Entrances in angles of wings: six-panel doors under gauged brick flat arches, in open porches with single arches to front and paired arches to sides, and cornice over. Gables of wings have twin two-light casements, with bands and C20 two-light casements, over; corner pilasters.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A rare survivor of the Penny Bank, among the earliest of working class savings institutions.
Listing NGR: SO4949259083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459646
- 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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