SAVINGS BANK

SAVINGS BANK, 59, LOWTHER STREET, WHITEHAVEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335988
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: SAVINGS BANK
Statutory Address:: SAVINGS BANK, 59, LOWTHER STREET, WHITEHAVEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335988
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: SAVINGS BANK
Statutory Address 1:: SAVINGS BANK, 59, LOWTHER STREET, WHITEHAVEN

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:: SAVINGS BANK, 59, LOWTHER STREET, WHITEHAVEN

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitehaven
National Grid Reference:: NX9733818176

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1086726. This entry was removed from the List on 6th May 2015. This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/05/2015.

NX 9718 SW 6/81

LOWTHER STREET (North East Side) No 59 (Savings Bank)

20.7.49.

II

Incorporates No 42 New Street which forms return side elevation. Early C19, classical. Stuccoed. 2 storeys. Lowther Street elevation has shallow Doric portico with 4 partly fluted columns, plain entablature, and cast iron balustrade. 1st floor divided by flat Doric pilasters into 3 bays, with double pilasters at outer corners. Windows with moulded architraves and cornices. Entablature and Royal Arms over centre bay. New Street return elevation has 4 1st-floor bays with attic storey to 2 left-hand bays. 2 right-hand bays have banded rustication on ground floor with string course between ground and 1st floors. Ground floor has 4 sash windows with doorway to far left. 1st floor of 2 left-hand bays has 2 sash windows with half-height attic windows above. 1st floor of 2 right-hand bays has a sash window and a blind window, both with moulded architraves and cornices above.

Listing NGR: NX 97338 18176

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Legacy System number:: 75998
Legacy System:: LBS

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