Halifax Building Society
HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 24, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281305
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 24, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281305
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 24, MARKET PLACE
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:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, 24, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49148 33687
Details
PARISH OF LONG EATON MARKET PLACE SK 43 SE 4/37 (East Side) Halifax Building Society (No 24) GV II
Bank, now building society offices. 1889 by Watson Fothergill for Samuel Smith's Bank. Red brick with yellow and blue brick bands, stone and terracotta dressings and rock faced stone plinth. Slate roof with moulded stone copings to gables and ridge finials. Elaborate brick side wall stacks with triangular sectioned pilaster strips to sides and sawtoothed crowns. Two storeys plus attics and three bays. Ground floor has an inside porch to south corner with semi-circular headed stone arches to west and south sides, supported in south-west corner by a large polished granite column with foliage capital. Both arches have contemporary wrought ironwork in the tympanums and grid-like ironwork below. Above each arch is a stone dripmould with carved stops. To the north there are five adjoining, moulded Caernarvon arched windows with four polished granite columns, plus foliage capitals, supporting the centre windows. Each window has a carved frieze to the top of the head and plate glass fenestration. Below is a continuous moulded sill band and above at first floor level is a deep moulded terracotta frieze, now mostly covered by facia board. Above again there are three basket arched plain sashes with moulded brick jambs and similarly moulded stone voussoirs. To base is a moulded sill band with blue brick band over and between the windows at lintel level there are two more blue brick bands. Set across the north corner is a canted, oriel, mullioned and transomed bay window with terracotta panels to base and coloured brick corbels below. Moulded stringcourses between storeys above and two large gables with two adjoining plain sashes recessed between them to centre. Each gable has a 3-light chamfered mullion window with plain sashes and continuous moulded sill and lintel stringcourses. Two blue brick bands above in the gables. North elevation on to churchyard has a grand mullioned and transomed stair window with stepped base. Below it is a large moulded arch with door and window within.
Listing NGR: SK4914833687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82222
- 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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