Bank House
1, MINSTERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297877
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- 1, MINSTERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297877
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, MINSTERGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2 AND 4, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- BANK HOUSE, MINSTERGATE
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, MINSTERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 4, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, MINSTERGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thetford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86874 83144
Details
THETFORD
TL8683 BRIDGE STREET 617-1/5/7 (North West side) 10/03/71 Nos.2 AND 4
GV II
Includes: Bank House MINSTERGATE. Includes: No.1 MINSTERGATE. Range of shops, now bank and shop. Early C19. Gault brick and slate roofs. Recessed 5-bay block with projecting wings right and left. 2 storeys. Between side wings is a single-storey C20 extension now forming entrance. Ground floor with rusticated brick plinth. Projecting centre bay under pediment. 5 unhorned sashes with 6/6 glazing bars. Dentil eaves cornice below low parapet and gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks. Left (south) wing with 3 late C19 round-headed sashes separated by engaged columns to ground floor. Above is a tripartite sash under a segmental arch, also late C19. Right is a sash blocked in C20. Right (north) wing with a mid C19 plate-glass shop front with a row of upper lights. Egg-and-dart cornice below pediment with dentils. One sash to left, formerly 6/6, now without upper glazing bars. 2 similar, intact, first-floor sashes. Wings have hipped roofs reduced in size and rebuilt C20. Scattered stacks. Rear with a 2-panelled door at first-floor level: 7-vaned fanlight, engaged Tuscan columns and open segmental pediment, not in situ. (Crosby A: A History of Thetford: Chichester: 1986-: PL 25).
Listing NGR: TL8687483144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crosby, A, A History of Thetford, (1986)
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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