Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland, 2, New Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289809
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Statutory Address:
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 2, New Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289809
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Statutory Address 1:
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 2, New Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 55, Church 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:
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 2, New Street
- Statutory Address:
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 55, Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47589 61834
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to update text on the 25 January 2022
SD4761NE
1685-1/7/199
LANCASTER
NEW STREET (West side)
No. 2, (Royal Bank of Scotland)
09/07/74
GV
II
Includes: No.55 CHURCH STREET.
Bank and offices. Around 1829, built as the Amicable Society Library to designs by architect William Coulthart. Altered in 1956. Sandstone ashlar, with a slate roof, and a gable chimney stack to the right of the Church Street elevation.
Square plan on a corner site. Two storeys above cellars and seven bays in a symmetrical composition, which is "hinged" in the centre so that three bays are in New Street and three in Church Street, with the central bay, which is slightly convex and contains the doorway, forming a canted corner between them. The ground floor has banded rustication above a plinth, and the first floor is articulated by simple pilasters. The ground-floor windows have been lowered to the plinth and have late C20 joinery. On the first floor the windows have 15-pane sashes with plain reveals, except for the one above the entrance, which has a moulded architrave, a projecting sill, and a simple cornice. The doorway has plain reveals,
and panelled double doors below a large overlight.
Incorporated in the right-hand end of the Church Street facade is a Victorian cast-iron letter box.
Listing NGR: SD4758961834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
Stansfield, C, William Coulthart, 1787-1833: a Lancaster Architect (June 2021) in, accessed (accessed 25 Jan 2022). from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352439641_WILLIAM_COULTHART_1787_-_1833_A_LANCASTER_ARCHITECT
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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