Former Premises of Trustee Savings Bank
FORMER PREMISES OF TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, GROSVENOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376260
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Premises of Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PREMISES OF TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, GROSVENOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376260
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former Premises of Trustee Savings Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PREMISES OF TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, GROSVENOR STREET
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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:
- FORMER PREMISES OF TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK, GROSVENOR STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40452 65932
Details
CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4065NW GROSVENOR STREET 595-1/5/198 (South East side) 10/01/72 Former premises of Trustee Savings Bank
GV II*
Trustee Savings Bank, vacant in October 1990 when inspected. 1851-3. By James Harrison. Tooled sandstone with smooth flush quoins; grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic, on prominent corner site. Plinth. The north-west front to Grosvenor Street has recessed entrance bay, east, with double carved panelled doors of oak in arched opening with label-mould; janitor's window of one cusped light, east; 2 pairs of cross-windows, west, with cusped ogee lights; string-course rising above the windows. A crenellated oriel of 4 cusped lights surmounted by panel tracery, above the entrance; a pair of cross-windows, each surmounted by 4 lights of panel tracery beneath a Tudor arch, and a 4 light mullioned and transomed window with 8 lights of panel tracery above, under a segmental arch; string-course rising above each window; gable with carved parapet and finial above entrance bay. The central bay has stringcourse with carved punctuating stones and crenellated parapet with blank tracery; the string course carried across the west bay which has a 2-light casement with label-mould in gable with moulded parapet, but finial removed; a well-handled corner clock-turret faced with blank tracery and crowned with a Tudor octagonal stone belfry cupola. East gable chimney with 3 separated flues on plinth. The south-west face to Castle Square has 2 mullioned and transomed 3-light windows and one of 2-lights and a blocked secondary entrance. The second storey has a 5-light canted oriel with lozenge panels in its parapet, a 3-light mullioned and transomed window, one of 2 lights and a tripartite mullioned and transomed casement of 3;3;3 lights. A gable with parapet and finial contains a quatrefoil light; a crenel; a dormer gable with a small cusped 1-light window; a crenellated parapet with blank tracery. 2 shaped ridge chimneys with separated octagonal crenellated flues on plinths. The rear, partly altered in brick and with no features of special interest, is inconspicuous. INTERIOR: could not be inspected. This item is the most happily composed and detailed of James Harrison's designs in Chester.
Listing NGR: SJ4045265932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470254
- 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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