Former Bank
7, Market Place, CV11 4EB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299392
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 7, Market Place, CV11 4EB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299392
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, Market Place, CV11 4EB
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:
- 7, Market Place, CV11 4EB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 36233 91765
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SP39SE
2/37
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH
Nuneaton
MARKET PLACE
No 7
(Formerly listed as No.7 (Barclay's Bank))
II
Bank. Dated 1896, Architects Messrs. Wood and Kendrick, with early C20 addition to Coventry Street. Red brick, with buff terracotta dressings. Slate roof hidden by parapets; no stacks visible. L-plan on corner site. Elaborate Free Style. Three storeys; three-window range to each street, and canted corner. Moulded plinth throughout. Corner has moulded 10-panelled double-leaf doors, with fanlight obscured by late C20 sign. Elaborately moulded round arch with dentil cornice and bosses; spandrels have cartouches with date. Angles have slender shafts from springing of arch to second floor. Half-length putto and foliage spring from ornamented keyblock and support shallow curved balcony with cartouche and leaf and scrollwork. Basket-arched tripartite window has transom and glazing bars to upper lights. Arch has spandrels with decorated roundels and leaf work. Strongly-moulded string course. Second floor has paired round-arched plate glass sashes with ornamented shafts, moulded arches and decorated keyblocks. At springing of arches angles have leaf corbels and half-octagonal wall shafts. Elaborate parapet has dentil, modillion and moulded cornices.
Fronts to Bridge and Coventry Streets are similar to corner, but a little simpler. Ground floor has banded rustication and segmental-arched wood cross windows with Ionic half-column mullion and ornamented arches. First bay on left to Bridge Street has late C20 glazed door inserted. Addition on right is lower and plainer. Three storeys; four-window range. Eight-panelled door on right has decorated doorcase with pilasters, festoons, scrolled pediment and central panel with cartouche. Ground floor has two cross windows and single light on left. First floor has tripartite windows with blind tympana, and segmental-arched single light. Second floor has plate glass sashes.
Listing NGR: SP3623391765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308600
- 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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