Barclays Bank

BARCLAYS BANK, 521, PRESCOT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365839
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address:
BARCLAYS BANK, 521, PRESCOT ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365839
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address 1:
BARCLAYS BANK, 521, PRESCOT ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BARCLAYS BANK, 521, PRESCOT ROAD

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

District:
Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ3936191161

Details

SJ 3991 PRESCOT ROAD,
OLD SWAN
L13

25/907 No 52
12.7.66 (Barclays Bank)

G.V. II


Bank. Circa 1905. Grayson and Ould. Brick with stone
dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys and L-plan with canted
entrance bay in angle ending in octagonal turret. Ground
floor has channelled rustication; 1st floor sill and lintel
courses and banded gables. Flush quoins. End bay has Ionic
pilastrade with round-headed window flanked by windows with
fielded panels over. Round-headed entrance has Ionic
aedicule with rusticated pilasters and open pediment; round-
headed window to left. Windows over entrance are round-
headed with Lombard frieze over. End bay has window with
eared architrave and key in elliptical-headed recess with
flush quoins. End bay has canted oriel with flanking lights.
Dutch gable above. Turret has pyramidal roof with top cupola
with round-headed openings and ogival roof. Left return
similar with buttress supporting 2-storey oriel.


Listing NGR: SJ3936191161

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
359251
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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