Barclays Bank and attached railings

Barclays Bank and attached railings, 5 and 7, Market Place

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1313285
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: Barclays Bank and attached railings
Statutory Address:: Barclays Bank and attached railings, 5 and 7, Market Place

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1313285
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: Barclays Bank and attached railings
Statutory Address 1:: Barclays Bank and attached railings, 5 and 7, Market Place

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Barclays Bank and attached railings, 5 and 7, Market Place

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 45654 21917

Details

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SE 4521 NE 8/33

PONTEFRACT MARKET PLACE (south-east side) Nos 5 and 7 (Barclays Bank) and attached railings

(Formerly listed as Barclays Bank)

29.7.50

GV II*

House and attached railings, now bank. c.1760 with early C19 alterations. Probably by James Paine, for Rev Thomas Heron. Painted ashlar or stucco incised to simulate ashlar, stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Three storeys on basement, four-bay asymmetrical elevation composed of slightly advanced, pedimented three-bay symmetrical facade with central hallway entry and central full-height semi-circular-headed recess, flanked to left by short section of blank walling and to right by narrow bay with another entrance. Plinth. Basement windows to either side of main entrance are bowed and have C20 casements. Dwarf wall to front has alternating plain and wavy bars to railings which are ramped up to the main door. Two stone steps to pilastered doorcase with simple entablature and recessed six-panel door below radial glazed over-light.

To either side are bowed tripartite windows with twelve- and eight-pane sashes, stone sills and moulded cornices. Wide first-floor band immediately above. Right-hand bay has steps to narrower pilastered doorcase with dosserets, central panel with notched corners to deep frieze, moulded cornice with blocking course and six-panel door below radial glazed overlight. Continuous first-floor sill band and four tall sash windows with glazing bars, that over main door in eared architrave with chambranles below plain frieze and moulded pediment, others below floating cornices. Second floor has four six-pane sashes, that above main entrance in architrave with stepped head and with bracketed sill. Other windows have stone sills. Moulded open pediment over main three-bay facade, similarly moulded cornices to either side. Brick end stack to left, stone coped gables.

Interior: manager's office on ground floor to left has high quality cast-iron fireplace in pine surround with urns on frieze; flanked by round-arched niches; doors of six fielded panels; cornice; three later plaster ceiling roundels. Leatham, Tew and Company's Bank was founded in 1801, and taken over by Barclays in 1907. The attribution to James Paine is made by Derek Linstrum in West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture (1978), p. 382.

Listing NGR: SE4565421917

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Legacy System number:: 342672
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 382

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.