Clydesdale Bank

CLYDESDALE BANK, 10, 12 AND 14, BANK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297357
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Clydesdale Bank
Statutory Address:
CLYDESDALE BANK, 10, 12 AND 14, BANK STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1297357
Date first listed:
22-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
Clydesdale Bank
Statutory Address 1:
CLYDESDALE BANK, 10, 12 AND 14, BANK 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLYDESDALE BANK, 10, 12 AND 14, BANK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NY 40169 55827

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055NW BANK STREET 671-1/12/49 (South side) 22/03/74 Nos.10, 12 AND 14 Clydesdale Bank

GV II

Bank. 1878 for the Clydesdale Bank by Hetherington and Oliver of Carlisle. Red sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with interval pilasters, string courses and pierced quatrefoil parapet. Slate roof not visible from the street; clustered columned ashlar ridge chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 7 bays. Central C20 glazed doors in segmental-arched surround with paired polished granite colonnettes and overall overlight. Left and right plank doors with scrolled hinge brackets, in moulded surrounds under 2-light quatrefoil overlights; inscribed over each door OFFICE and OFFICES. Cross-mullioned windows, those on ground floor with cusped lights under quatrefoils, all others have cusped headed upper lights; windows on upper floor under segmental arches; 3-light windows above entrance, 2-light elsewhere. INTERIOR extensively altered on the ground floor. Original drawings are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/1079,1091 and 1114; an engraving of the building in Carlisle Library is thought to have come from the Builder. First Scottish provincial branch in England and caused questions to be asked in Parliament. See Charles W Munn, (1988) and Team Spirit (1988). (Munn, Charles W: Clydesdale Bank; the first 150 years; Team Spirit: September 1988: P.20).

Listing NGR: NY4016955827

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
386627
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Munn, C W, Clydesdale Bank The First 100 Years, (1988)
Team Spirit in September, (1988), 20

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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