Alliance and Leicester Building Society
ALLIANCE AND LEICESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297590
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Alliance and Leicester Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- ALLIANCE AND LEICESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297590
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Alliance and Leicester Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLIANCE AND LEICESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET PLACE
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:
- ALLIANCE AND LEICESTER BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65932 27506
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 MARKET PLACE 631-1/4/143 (East side) 22/05/72 Alliance & Leicester Building Society (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (East side) Premises occupied by Helston Trustee Savings Bank)
GV II
Town house, later bank, now building society premises. c1840. Granite ashlar with vermiculated plinth, moulded window architraves and tall parapet entablature with heavy moulded cornice; asbestos slate roof where visible; brick stacks. Tapered corner-site plan. Classical style. 2-storeys over basement; symmetrical 3-bay front framed by giant pilasters. Late C19 or C20 twelve-pane horned sashes; central doorway flanked by blind panels; original pair of 5-panel doors and latticed overlight, 4 granite steps; latticed basement window on left. Left-hand return and rear elevation have original sashes with glazing bars; some blind windows. INTERIOR: open-well open-string staircase with scrolled mahogany handrail; panelled doors and moulded plaster ceiling cornice. This building is part of an important group of high quality buildings including the guildhall (qv) and market hall (now the Museum (qv)) in the centre of the town.
Listing NGR: SW6593227506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385496
- 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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