Bank House
BANK HOUSE, 119, TOWNGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362130
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, 119, TOWNGATE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03115/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362130
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, 119, TOWNGATE
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:
- BANK HOUSE, 119, TOWNGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51850 17269
Details
ECCLESTON TOWNGATE
SD 51 NW
9/107 No. 119 (Bank House)
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GV II
Savings Bank, now house. Dated 1849 at 1st floor, altered. Coursed squared
sandstone with quoins, low-pitched slate roof with central chimney.
Double-depth, 3 bays. Two storeys, symmetrical, in Gothic style; central
doorway altered as a window, with moulded Tudor-arched head, and on each floor
two windows of 2 pointed arched lights, all these openings with the heads cut
in one block, and with square hoodmoulds; in the centre a recessed plaque
imitating on a smaller scale the door below and inscribed
SAVINGS
BANK
1849
(Modern single-storey addition at right hand side in matching style and
materials not included in the item). Item forms group with Eccleston Old
School (q.v.) immediately south.
Listing NGR: SD5185017269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184359
- 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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