Bank House
BANK HOUSE, 20 AND 22, ST EDWARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268560
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 20 AND 22, ST EDWARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268560
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, 20 AND 22, ST EDWARD 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, 20 AND 22, ST EDWARD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98294 56537
Details
LEEK
SJ9856NW ST EDWARD STREET 611-1/4/110 (West side) Nos.20 AND 22 Bank House
GV II
Bank, now in use as offices. 1885. Designed by W Owen of Warrington for Parrs Bank. Red brick with ashlar to ground floor and blue brick dressings. Slate roof. Venetian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 3-window range. Ground floor arcaded throughout with doorway to left, the windows grouped as 3, one and 2 lights. Single window is recessed with rusticated pilasters, the others have twisted pilasters, possibly cast-iron. Panelled door with plain fanlight to right. Moulded cornice over ground floor, then brickwork to upper storeys. Arcaded triple windows with heavy foliate capitals to piers each side of single central light. Continuous stone hoodmould links the windows, and there are also continuous bands of blue brick. Red and blue chequerwork brickwork above stone cornice to attic storey, which has similar windows of 3, one and 2 lights. Pedimented gable over paired right-hand windows, the roofline raised over hand block with eaves overhanging on console brackets, with mosaic panels set between the brackets. Return to High Street has 2 ground-floor windows with stone cartouche between, and 2 attic windows. End wall stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ9829456537
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461684
- 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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