1 St Georges Square
1, St Georges Square
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282846
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 1 St Georges Square
- Statutory Address:
- 1, St Georges Square
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- Date:
- 2001-05-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/02861/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282846
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 1 St Georges Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, St Georges Square
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:
- 1, St Georges Square
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 20205 68728
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 February 2024 to update the description and to reformat the text to current standards
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708-1/14/137
BARROW IN FURNESS
ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (West side)
No.1
(Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE No.1 Hospital Education Centre)
06/05/76
GV
II
Former bank. Dated 1864. For the Lancaster Banking Company. Ashlar limestone with brick to rear, graduated slate roof. Two storeys, 4:1:3 bays wrapped around corner of The Strand and St George's Square. Moulded plinth; rusticated ground floor; recessed corner bay set on curve. Plain sashes now partially replaced by casements. A pair of doorways to St George's Square are set in raised panel: each has pilasters with composite capitals and archivolt with mask keystone. Right-hand doorway has eight-panel door and plain fanlight; left-hand doorway is now a window. Sash on right has sunken apron, recessed surround and segmental arch with keystone; continuous cornice. A brass nameplate to right of front door commemorates ‘The Lancaster Banking Company Limited’. First-floor sill band to similar, but square-headed, window surrounds. String course below modillions to simple cornice with blocking course. Corner bay lit by segmentally-arched window to each floor; blocking course has scrolled supports and anthemion to display an oval date plaque (now missing). Hipped roof; ridge stack and end stacks with modillioned cornices. Left return windows as front.
INTERIOR: original staircase with cast-iron balustrade panels and wreathed mahogany handrail; margin-glazed ceiling light. Banking hall ceiling now underdrawn.
Listing NGR: SD2020568728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388575
- 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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