Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/10/2014

SD2274
708-1/10/200

BARROW IN FURNESS, Dalton In Furness,
MARKET STREET (North side),
No. 67
Natwest Bank and Bank Chambers

(Formerly listed as No.69, National Westminster Bank and Bank Chambers)

II

Bank and offices. c1895. For the Lancaster Banking Co. Ltd.
Rock-faced and ashlar limestone, graduated slate roofs.
2 storeys and attic with 2:1:2-bay facade wrapped around
corner of Nelson Street and Market Street. Battered plinth
with recessed window aprons. Ground floor has sill band and
channelled, rock-faced rustication; moulded sill bands to
upper floors. Corner entrance: later double doors and plain
fanlight under archivolt with insignia on keystone; rusticated
ashlar piers and carved corbels support balustraded balcony
with emblems and word 'BANK'.
1st floor has tall, paired sashes in moulded surrounds; carved
aprons to similar attic windows in half-dormer with pedimented
shield over. Both returns have recessed, tripartite sashes
under segmental arches with carved keystones (single sash to
left of doorway). Frieze with shields and original bank name
masked by sign; dentilled cornice forms 1st-floor sills to
plain sashes under flat arches with cornices and pedimented
keystones.
2nd floor: bracketed sills to plain sashes in half-dormers
with cornices and peaked blocking courses. Interrupted eaves
have string course and corbel-table to moulded, cast-iron
gutter. Hipped roof with finial and corniced ashlar stacks set
to rear and at right end.
Side wing: entrance to Bank Chambers in angle on right has
panelled door and cornice on shaped bracket; double sash on
each floor to left and single sash over door; broad end stack
on left. Rear of wing has margin-glazed stair window with
leaded and stained glass.
INTERIOR: low banking hall ceiling in geometric panels with
fleur-de-lys and lion motifs; modillioned cornice with egg and
dart. Segmental arches through to rear, that on right with
leaded glass, dentilled transom and cornice. Bank Chambers:
original staircase with landing across stair window.
Good example of local town bank in little altered state.
Original plans submitted in 1892.
(Building Plans Register: 1892-: 486).

Listing NGR: SD2294874060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492286

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)