National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, DUKE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283024
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, DUKE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283024
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, DUKE 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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, DUKE STREET
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 19644 69388
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/62 (North East side) 06/05/76 National Westminster Bank
GV II
Bank. c1874. For the Lancaster Banking Co (plans register). Brick and ashlar sandstone on limestone plinth, graduated slate roof. 3 storeys and attic; 1:4: bays; bay 1 set back and treated differently, its floor levels lower. Bay 1: rusticated ashlar ground floor, brickwork above. Ashlar doorcase with panelled double doors under archivolt with keystone carved spandrels and modillioned pediment. Central recess above has paired windows to 1st and 2nd floor: plain sashes with pilaster mullions impost bands and archivolts. Recess has corbel table beneath eaves cornice. Pierced parapet with end dies; central square-headed dormer with cornice on brackets, ball finials and small pediment raised on panel with carved rose. Mansard roof with coped gable parapet on left. Bays 2-5: limestone plinth to ashlar facade. Sill band, band-rusticated pilasters between ground-floor sashes having recessed, segmentally-arched surrounds with keystones; entablature with Vitruvian scroll, C20 fascia sign beneath the cornice. 1st floor: balustraded aprons and moulded sill band to round-arched sashes in aedicules with carved spandrels and dentilled cornices; 1st-floor cornice forms sill to windows above. 2nd floor: paired windows in recesses between pilasters; round-arched sashes with pilaster mullions, impost string course and archivolts. String course and 4 corbel tables to straight cornice surmounted by balustraded parapet with dies to each bay division. Mansard roof with dormers behind the parapet; ashlar end stacks with offsets and bands. Formed part of planned scheme around Ramsden Square, the focal point of Barrow in Furness town centre. Demolished buildings to right of the bank matched Nos 121 & 123 Duke Street (qv) situated opposite thus giving a formal entrance to Duke Street from Ramsden Square. (Building Plans Register: 1874-: 538 (NO PLANS); Trescatheric B: Dalton in Furness in Old Picture Postcards: Netherlands: 1982-: PL 3).
Listing NGR: SD1964469388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388461
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trescatheric, B, Barrow in Furness in Old Picture Postcards, (1982), 3
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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