ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 269, LORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379630
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Statutory Address:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 269, LORD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379630
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 269, LORD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, 269, LORD STREET

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

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD3353917292

Details

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SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/76 (West side) No.269 Royal Bank of Scotland

GV II

Bank. 1893, by WW Gwyther. Sandstone ashlar. French Renaissance style. Rectangular plan at right angles to street. EXTERIOR: 3-and-half-storeys; 3:1 windows. Low plinth of red granite, string-courses between floors, a prominent cornice, a parapet with balustrades over the first and third bays, and a pavilion roof over the entrance bay finished with a wrought-iron corona. The entrance bay to the right has a Tuscan porch with raised lettering: BANK on the frieze and an enriched swan-neck pediment, protecting a round-headed doorway with keyed architrave and foliated metal tracery in the fanlight also lettered: BANK. Canted bay windows at first and second floors; and a pilastered and pedimented attic window in front of the pavilion roof, with scrolled supporters on flanking parapets with urn terminals. The 3-window portion to the left has pilasters to the ground floor (the outer with channelled rustication); an Ionic screen at first floor in front of recessed windows which have moulded architraves with triple keystones; shorter windows at second floor with shouldered architraves; and 3 attic dormers, that in the centre with a pilastered and segmentally-pedimented architrave. Windows at second floor and attic level are 1/1 sashes, but the others have altered glazing. Gable chimneys and ridge chimney. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3353917292

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Legacy System number:: 479025
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.