National Westminster Bank Including Gate to Side Passage
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING GATE TO SIDE PASSAGE, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379898
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Gate to Side Passage
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING GATE TO SIDE PASSAGE, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379898
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Gate to Side Passage
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING GATE TO SIDE PASSAGE, 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.
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 INCLUDING GATE TO SIDE PASSAGE, 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 26940 09353
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/81 (South side)
08/03/96 No.66
National Westminster Bank including
gate to side passage
GV II
Bank. 1903-4 by W Campbell Jones of London for the Union of
London and Smiths Bank Limited. Limestone ashlar facing to
front, yellow brick to sides and rear with ashlar dressings.
Green slate roof. Edwardian Baroque.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical, with a
further single-bay section set back in passage to left.
Plinth, rock-faced rustication below ground-floor sill band.
Tall entrance to first bay has step to recessed door beneath
blocked overlight in architrave with pulvinated frieze carved
with openwork foliage, modillioned cornice and bracketed hood
carrying open scrolled pediment.
To right, tall narrow recessed windows in architraves with
sill band, carved pulvinated friezes and hoods. Frieze bearing
name-board at first-floor level. Central bay has a recessed
panel rising through the first and second floors in a deep
chamfered reveal beneath a keyed segmental arch breaking the
eaves cornice, the first floor with a tall sash in an
architrave with pulvinated frieze and keystone supporting a
segmental pediment, and a segmental-bowed balcony with blind
balustrade. Side bays have tall triple first-floor sashes in
architraves with bracketed pediments. Second floor has central
sash in keyed architrave with shallow canted balconette;
triple sashes to side bays in chamfered reveals with ornate
carved keystones. String course; deep modillioned cornice with
open pediment to central bay containing swags and a cartouche
bearing the company cypher.
Mansard roof with pair of flat-roofed 3-light dormers to side
bays. All windows have glazing bars. Coped gables. End stacks.
Left return has continuation of the eaves cornice, interrupted
by a deeply-recessed central panel containing a Diocletian
attic window in a chamfered reveal with keystone.
Side passage to left; recessed bay at end of passage has a
projecting single-storey entrance porch with a round-headed
fielded-panel door and radial fanlight in ashlar surround with
bracketed hood. Above this is a canted first-floor balcony and
a raised ashlar panel containing single 6/6 sashes to each
floor with a carved panel between. Rainwater-head here dated
1904.
INTERIOR: banking hall has a pair of Ionic-style columns,
panelled ceiling with ornate modillioned cornices with
paterae; centrepiece to north side has octagonal half-columns,
segmental pediment and a pair of arched alcoves containing
coats of arms and First World War memorial plaque. Original
features to upper floor, including moulded cornices.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: side passage to left has a wrought-iron
gateway to street with ornate scrollwork side panels and
overthrow.
(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.11; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.11; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.19).
Listing NGR: TA2694009353
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 341
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/252517
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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