Barclays Bank

BARCLAYS BANK, 37, 39 AND 41, VICTORIA STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379893
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address:
BARCLAYS BANK, 37, 39 AND 41, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379893
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:
Barclays Bank
Statutory Address 1:
BARCLAYS BANK, 37, 39 AND 41, VICTORIA STREET WEST

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, 37, 39 AND 41, VICTORIA STREET WEST

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 26845 09355

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/75 (North side)
Nos.37, 39 AND 41
Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. 1913 by Garside and Pennington. Main section in ashlar,
section to Brewery Street in red brick with ashlar dressings.
Slate roof. Edwardian Classical style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; occupies corner site with main entrance
to corner, 3 bays to left to Victoria Street West and a single
bay to Brewery Street with a recessed 4-bay section to right.
Moulded marble plinth. Channelled rustication to ground floor
and full-height angle pilasters. Tall recessed entrance has
C20 glazed doors in original surround with architrave, carved
dosserets with hanging foliate drops and pulvinated frieze,
moulded cornice and blocking course carrying first-floor sill
string course. To left, 3 round-arched windows with margin
glazing bars in deep hollow-chamfered reveals with bold
keystones. Upper storeys have vertical panels to each bay,
containing a first-floor plate-glass casement with projecting
lintel and corniced hood, raised panel at second-floor level,
2-light second-floor mullioned window with glazing bars.
Entablature with modillioned cornice, tall panelled blocking
course forming parapet, with raised section above corner bay
bearing a carved wreath.
Brewery Street front has single similar bay flanking entrance
to left, and recessed 4-bay section with similar details but
in red brick with ashlar windows and dressings, the
ground-floor section without rustication, and with windows in
plain-chamfered arched reveals linked by flush ashlar bands;
similar cornice to main front but without parapet.
INTERIOR: banking hall has panelled ceiling with foliate
modillioned cornices, panelled dado and pilastered wall
arcading, wood panelling with carved overdoor and elaborate
C18-style chimneypiece with pedimented overmantel and carved
tympanum.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.16; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.16; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 15).


Listing NGR: TA2684509355

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479335
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 341

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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