National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 47, BURNLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274553
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 47, BURNLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274553
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 47, BURNLEY 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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 47, BURNLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Padiham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 79424 33950
Details
SD 73 SE PADIHAM BURNLEY ROAD (north side)
3/27 No.47 (National Westminster Bank) - - II
1901 by Mills Murgatroyd of Manchester Branch bank with chambers above. 1901 for Manchester and County Bank. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof. Free Jacobean. 2 storeys and 5 bays, with low square tower surmounted by square dome above entrance, and big bay window at right hand end. Entrance roughly in centre. Doorway with moulded jambs and moulded 4-centre arch beneath rectangular inset panel within a frame with Renaissance details. This bears date and shields of Manchester and of Lancashire. Pediment of frame rises to embrace first floor.window. Double leaved door with Jacobean panelling. Banking hall to right has 5-light window set within a frame whose two king mullions are half-lozenges in plan and are decorated with lozenges. Details of bow window are similar, but it has a balustrade of square inverted vase balusters incorporating a panel of rinceaux under florid initials MCB. Most first-floor windows of 2 lights with, above the transomes, semi-circular arches from which springs a tiny mullion. Doorway to chambers at left and beyond 2 modern shop fronts under original string course. Interior: Panelling and ribbed plaster ceiling of Jacobean patterns. A boldly designed building on a sloping corner site, an obvious pendant to the Bank at no.17 Burnley road (q,v.)
Listing NGR: SD7942433950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414859
- 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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