Description

HIGH STREET
1.
1133
(North Side)
Lloyds Bank
ST 4938 7/141
II GV
2.
1885. By G M Tilley. Tall neo-Gothic building dominating the George Hotel to
west. Ashlar. 3 storeys and attics. Twin gables with parapets and finials above
cornice with paterae and grotesque masks. Sill bands, stringcourses. Buttresses
with set-offs flank front. 2 small decorative openings in gables, shield with
swag and date 1885 between. 3 windows of 1 and 2-lights, all with roll mouldings
and cusped heads. Small bay in centre of 1st floor with crenellated parapet and
3 lights. Sash windows, no glazing bars. Foliated frieze over ground floor which
is divided into 5 bays by 1/2-shafts rising from moulded plinth. 2 Tudor lights
with crenellated transom to each bay. Arched entrance to right with foliated spandrels.
Pointed wooden door.
All the listed buildings from Crown Hotel to No 11 (North side) and Nos 2 to 10,
with No 12 (South side), and the Market Cross and Nos 6 to 9 (consec) Market Place
form an extremely important group.

Listing NGR: ST4990538962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26310082

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)