Former Bank and Residence
FORMER BANK AND RESIDENCE, 122, VICTORIA ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273401
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bank and Residence
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BANK AND RESIDENCE, 122, VICTORIA ROAD
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-01-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/05041/28
- Rights:
- © Dr Geoffrey Court. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273401
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bank and Residence
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BANK AND RESIDENCE, 122, VICTORIA ROAD
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:
- FORMER BANK AND RESIDENCE, 122, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 30744 93976
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/03/2015
SJ 39 SW
1916-/3/10002
WALLASEY
New Brighton
VICTORIA ROAD
No. 122
Former Bank and Residence
(Formerly listed as Barclays Bank, No 122 Victoria Road and 93 Rowson Street)
II
Bank, formerly incorporating residence. Early C20 with late C20
alterations. Free style, with some classical and Arts and Crafts
motifs. Ashlar sandstone and roughcast brickwork with gabled and
hipped roofs, rendered ridge chimney stacks with moulded caps.
Plain red tile roof coverings. Prominently sited corner building
with entrance bay set at the angle between street frontage
ranges, and expressed as a corner turret. South-east entrance
flanked by granite Tuscan columns, supporting a moulded
architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Double entrance doors,
each of two panels. Above the doorway, the segmental front of the
turret with a curved 4 light window with 6 pane casements. A
moulded cornice supports a frieze decorated with relief figures,
below a tapering conical roof with lead finial supporting a
weathervane. Street elevations to East and South of two bays are
two storeyed with attics each with slight jetting to first and
attic floors. Ground floor banking hall has two tall semi-
circular headed window openings, with glazing bar sashes with
radiating bars to upper sash which is taller than the lower sash.
A moulded storey band supports the rough cast first floor, with
squat corner pilasters and advanced 3-light windows with 6 pane
casements. Broad attic gable expressed as giant pediment defined
by moulded storey band and barge boards, the latter with dentil
ornaments. 3 light window to gable apex, with 4 pane casements.
Lower two storey bay continues to north of east gable, with a
canted bay window with 5 mullioned and transomed lights, each of
6 panels below 4 panes. First floor 4-light window with 6 pane
casements. The Bank interior has many late C20 alterations, and
no surviving features. The original ceilings may be concealed
beneath a later suspended ceiling.
Listing NGR: SJ3074493976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445169
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 20-Jun-2026 at 05:07:27.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.