Ye Olde Bank House

YE OLDE BANK HOUSE, 137, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382330
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Ye Olde Bank House
Statutory Address:
YE OLDE BANK HOUSE, 137, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1382330
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Ye Olde Bank House
Statutory Address 1:
YE OLDE BANK HOUSE, 137, HIGH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
YE OLDE BANK HOUSE, 137, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Warwickshire
District:
Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:
Henley-in-Arden
National Grid Reference:
SP 15103 66051

Details

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/67 (East side)
05/04/67 No.137
Ye Olde Bank House

GV II

House, now restaurant. Late C18 or early C19. Brick with
stucco front; Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Plain parapet. Shop front to right of
centre has frieze, cornice and parapet over C20 door with
decorative glazing and flanking canted bay windows with
colonnettes and upper lights with decorative glazing; panel
above has reeded frame to raised lettering: YE OLD BANK HOUSE.
2-storey canted bay window to left has cornices over plate
glass sashes to ground floor and 4/4:8/8:4/4 sashes to first
floor.
Right return has some segmental-headed windows with
small-paned iron glazing with pivoted lights. Rear has 2
gabled wings, one with 10/10 sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: an agency of the bank of Tomes, Chattaway and Ford
was established here by Richard Burman, draper, in the early
C19, the first bank in Henley-in-Arden.
(Cooper W: Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town:
Birmingham: 1946-: 100).



Listing NGR: SP1510366051

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482697
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Cooper, W, Henley in Arden: An Ancient Market Town, (1946), 100

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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.

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