Barclay's Bank
BARCLAY'S BANK, 1 AND 3, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282469
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Barclay's Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAY'S BANK, 1 AND 3, LICHFIELD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282469
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Barclay's Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAY'S BANK, 1 AND 3, LICHFIELD 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:
- BARCLAY'S BANK, 1 AND 3, LICHFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91442 98732
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NW LICHFIELD STREET 895-1/11/254 (North side) 12/02/75 Nos.1 AND 3 Barclay's Bank
GV II
Bank. 1876, with later alterations. By T.H.Fleeming. Ashlar with red sandstone shafts; tile roof. High Victorian Gothic style. 3 storeys; 7-bay range, with canted corner bay to left. Ground floor has sill course, impost band and cornice with stiff-leaf decoration, 2nd floor sill band and top modillioned cornice. First 2 and 6th bays break forward under gables. Straight-headed ground floor windows have fixed glazing and foliate capitals; upper windows have sashes; 1st floor has pointed windows of 2 orders with foliate capitals to shafts, the 6th bay of 3 pointed lights with bracketed balcony; 2nd floor has straight-headed windows, with capitals to shafts; 6th bay has stepped triplet of pointed lights. Gable to 1st 2 bays has rose window and end stack. Canted corner bay has similar details and pointed entrance with flanking arches on round piers with iron grilles; inner entrance of 2 orders; top gable has blind lancet. Return to Lich Gates of 5 bays, 4th bay has entrance of 2 orders blocked for cashcard machines, oriel window above and top gable with rose. Rear of 9 bays, the 1st 4 bays of 2 storeys with tall 1st floor, gabled arch over 1st bay of ground floor; next 5 bays of 3 storeys, hood to 1st bay of ground floor, gables to 5th 7th and 8th bays. Right return has 2-storey projection with panelled parapet and octagonal turret with embattled parapet, single-storey re-entrant block with gabled entrance to Lichfield Street. INTERIOR has late C20 banking hall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.318).
Listing NGR: SO9143798731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 318
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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