Former Yorkshire Bank
1, Scot Lane, DN1 1EW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314903
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 1, Scot Lane, DN1 1EW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314903
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, Scot Lane, DN1 1EW
- Statutory Address 2:
- 16, High Street, DN1 1ED
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, Scot Lane, DN1 1EW
- Statutory Address:
- 16, High Street, DN1 1ED
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57530 03311
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 February 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 5703 SE
7/42
TOWN OF DONCASTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 16
Including 1 SCOT LANE
(Formerly listed as The Yorkshire Bank, No 16)
GV
II
Bank. 1841 by William Hurst with addition of 1906. Ashlar, tooled and with horizontal rustication to ground floor. Roof hidden. Original part of three storeys; set on corner site with Scot Lane, three bays to High Street, curved corner bay and single bay to Scot Lane. Two storey, seven bay 1906 addition to Scot Lane. Plinth.
Entrance to corner bay, double panelled doors below plain fanlight in semi-circular headed doorcase with radiating voussoirs, moulded keystone and impost band. Four similar openings with plate-glass windows above panelled aprons to High Street and two similar to Scot Lane. Entablature with roll-moulded stringcourse clasped by the keystones, plain frieze and moulded cornice. First floor balcony on elaborate stone brackets to three corner bays with square corniced piers and ironwork panels. To first and second floors these three bays are articulated by paired giant Tuscan pilasters on deep common plinths.
First floor: over the entrance is a full length curved plate-glass sash in eared architrave below dentilled segmental broken pediment on carved consoles. Similar windows to either side in similar surrounds except with dentilled cornices. Two similar windows to these to left (High Street). Above five unequally hung plate-glass sashes in eared and shouldered architraves on bracketed sills. Eaves band, large corniced console brackets supporting moulded cornice and blocking course. Cornice and blocking course projects over the pilasters. 1906 addition to Scot Lane has similar ground floor to original section except to bay four which has semi-circular window in vermiculated surround with dated keystone, set in pilastered surround with vermiculated banding to pilasters, foliage frieze and bracketed cornice.
Above two left-hand bays are recessed; five advanced bays to right are flanked by paired Ionic-style pilasters with shield and swag decoration to heads. Seven unequally hung plate-glass sashes in shouldered architraves with decorated pulvinated friezes and cornices, above projecting corniced aprons, that to bay five set in rusticated stonework below shell head within open segmental pedimented surround on Ionic style columns with segmental balustraded balcony to front. Plain parapets over.
Originally built for the Doncaster Savings Bank, one of the earliest banks in the country.
Listing NGR: SE5753003311
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335037
- 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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