National Westminster Bank and St Andrews Chambers and Union Bank Chambers
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK AND ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS AND UNION BANK CHAMBERS, CLEETHORPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379416
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank and St Andrews Chambers and Union Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK AND ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS AND UNION BANK CHAMBERS, CLEETHORPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379416
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank and St Andrews Chambers and Union Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK AND ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS AND UNION BANK CHAMBERS, CLEETHORPE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, RIBY SQUARE
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:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK AND ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS AND UNION BANK CHAMBERS, CLEETHORPE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, RIBY SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 27742 10459
Details
TA2710SE
699-1/12/54
GRIMSBY,
CLEETHORPE ROAD (East side),
National Westminster Bank and St Andrews Chambers and Union Bank Chambers
09/02/99
II
Includes: National Westminster Bank RIBY SQUARE.
Bank and offices. 1899-1900 by HC Scaping for the Union of
London and Smiths Bank Limited. Sandstone ashlar facing; red
brick to exposed gables and rear. Welsh slate roof. Edwardian
Classical style. Rectangular on plan, with canted angle to
street corner.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4 irregular bays to Riby
Square front, 3 irregular bays to Cleethorpe Road front.
Moulded plinth, rusticated panels below ground-floor sill
string course, rusticated quoins to first floor. Bank entrance
has projecting single-storey porch on street corner with
balcony above. Entrances to the upstairs offices are in the
far left and far right bays on each front. Each entrance has
keyed round-arched doorways with rusticated surrounds and
panelled double doors, those to the corner and Cleethorpe Road
with overlights with geometric-pattern glazing bars. Carved
panel above the corner door inscribed "LINCOLN BANK, GRIMSBY
BRANCH"; the Cleethorpe Road entrance with a panel inscribed
"ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS" and a carved shield dated 1900. The Riby
Square door has a 5-pane overlight, a carved panel with
cartouche and fronds, inscription "UNION BANK CHAMBERS" and
radial fanlight.
Between entrances are arcaded sections (7 bays to Cleethorpe
Road, 4 bays to Riby Square), with attached Doric columns
between windows with plate-glass lower sections and upper
sections with glazing bars. Entablature at first-floor level
with C20 name-boards. Above the corner porch is a balustraded
balcony and a first-floor Venetian window with a tall keystone
rising to the eaves. Side bays have tripartite and single
sashes in architraves with dripmoulds. All first-floor windows
are 6/6 or 4/6 sashes. Deep moulded and modillioned eaves
cornice. Prominent downpipes with shaped rainwater-heads.
Mansard roof with 6/6 pedimented dormer sashes. Corniced
ashlar ridge stacks, coped gables.
INTERIOR: retains original features. Banking hall has single
octagonal rusticated column with plain-moulded capital,
coffered ceiling with modillioned cornice; panelled walls,
dado rail, window architraves, wooden chimneypiece inscribed
with date and company cypher; panelled internal porch with
brass First World War memorial plaque. St Andrews Chambers
entrance hall has good cantilevered staircase with
wrought-iron balustrade and swept handrail. Plainer staircase
to Union Chambers.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342-3; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-1982: NO.95; Ambler RW: Great
Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: 15-16).
Listing NGR: TA2774210459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478796
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 342-343
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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