Hsbc Bank

HSBC BANK, 64, HIGHGATE, LA9 4TF

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312132
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Hsbc Bank
Statutory Address:
HSBC BANK, 64, HIGHGATE, LA9 4TF
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Date:
2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1312132
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Hsbc Bank
Statutory Address 1:
HSBC BANK, 64, HIGHGATE, LA9 4TF

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:
HSBC BANK, 64, HIGHGATE, LA9 4TF

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kendal
National Grid Reference:
SD 51459 92566

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/03/2017


SD 5192 NW,
7/55

KENDAL,
HIGHGATE (West side),
HSBC Bank

(Formerly listed as Midland Bank)

(Previously listed as No 64, Midland Bank)

G.V.

II

Bank. 1834 by George Webster for Bank of Westmorland; lion put in position
1840. Altered internally 1912; railings and steps rebuilt 1923 and 1966.
Ashlar on rough-dressed plinth. 1st-floor sill band interrupted by pilasters to
three central bays which carry entablature (with Bank's name) surmounted by
life-size sculpture of recumbent lion on plinth with scrolled supporters. Eaves
cornice and blocking course. Graduated slate roof with corniced stepped, stone
end chimneys. Two storeys, five bays (1:3:1). Central panelled door and rectangular
fanlight in pedimented architrave approached by steps, parallel to front, on
either side. Sashes with glazing bars. In outer bays, ground-floor sashes have
shouldered Egyptian architraves; 1st-floor sashes have architraves with
bracketed cornices.


Listing NGR: SD5145992566

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
75396
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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