Former Trustee Savings Bank, 33 East Castle Street
Legends, 33 East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367463
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Trustee Savings Bank, 33 East Castle Street
- Statutory Address:
- Legends, 33 East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367463
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Mar-2019
- List Entry Name:
- Former Trustee Savings Bank, 33 East Castle Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Legends, 33 East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AN
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:
- Legends, 33 East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4AN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgnorth
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7166493032
Summary
An early-C19 bank building with Classical detailing.
Reasons for Designation
The former Trustee Savings Bank, 33 East Castle Street, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a neatly-designed early-C19 former bank it is a good example of the architectural tradition established for bank buildings of the period;
* it has good Classical detailing including pilasters and keystones to the facades and decorative parapets to the roof.
Group value:
* with the cast-iron conduit head, separately listed at Grade II, which is set within a niche in the East Castle Street elevation of the former Trustee Savings Bank;
* with the numerous other listed buildings in this part of Bridgnorth town centre, which has a rich historic layout formed around the former medieval town walls.
History
The former Trustee Savings Bank was built in the early C19. It stands on the route of the former town wall and close to the site of the Postern Gate. It is shown on the Ordnance Survey Map of 1884. In the later C20 it ceased to function as a bank and extensions were built to the rear of the building by this time. In the C21 it has been fitted out as a food outlet to the ground floor.
Details
An early-C19 bank with later alterations and adapted use.
MATERIALS: constructed of brick with stucco render to the main elevations. The windows are timber hornless sashes, some without glazing bars.
PLAN: the building is on an irregular corner plot and is of two storeys. The principal elevations face west (Postern Gate) and south (East Castle Street) with the main entrance in the corner between them. There is an additional entrance in the Bank Street elevation and an inserted entrance to Postern Gate.
EXTERIOR: a pared-down Classical design, the three principal elevations are stuccoed with pilasters, a plinth with string course, and rusticated to the ground floor. The main doorway has a moulded architrave with a cornice hood on consoles. The door to the left bay of the Postern Gate elevation is probably a former window with a dropped cill. The Bank Street elevation is of three bays and a recessed central door with a hood on consoles. The openings to the ground floor of each elevation have flat heads with vermiculated keystones and segmental arches set in the storey band above. The first floor openings have moulded architraves with scrolled bases and moulded cill bands. The moulded eaves cornice has a low parapet above that is pierced with ornamental panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254417
- 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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