Former Barclays Bank
FORMER BARCLAYS BANK, 127, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BARCLAYS BANK, 127, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BARCLAYS BANK, 127, KING 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.
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:
- FORMER BARCLAYS BANK, 127, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75186 78900
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 KING STREET 792-1/3/67 (East side) 24/07/92 No.127 Former Barclays Bank
GV II
Formerly known as: Union Bank KING STREET. Bank. Purpose-built 1856. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 5-window range, with shallow hipped roofed wing projecting to the left. Main entrance to left in this wing, in heavy stone porch, the round-arched entrance carried on squat marble columns and surmounted by deep entablature. Heavy arcading to paired windows to right, the deep round arches carried on marble shafts. Recessed plate traceried windows. Secondary doorway to left of right-hand block, with stilted arched entablature. Tripartite sash window alongside, with stilted entablature. Continuous string course beneath first-floor windows which are all sashes in stilted arches, the hoodmould continuous in the left-hand wing, the right-hand windows stressed with entablature hoods. Heavy moulded stone eaves cornice. Axial stack. INTERIOR: not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ7518678900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476394
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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