Description

SE780715
801-1/8/173
10/06/74

MALTON
YORKERSGATE
(South side)
No.27
National Westminster Bank

II

GV

Bank. 1866, with C20 alteration. By Rawlins Gould for Robert
Bower, proprietor of the East Riding Bank. Italianate style.
Front of sandstone ashlar, rear of pink and cream mottled
brick, with slate roof. 2-storey 7-window front, on plinth. 3
entrances, one in centre, and one at each end. Doorcases
composed of pilasters on pedestals, and plain entablatures
with console cornice hoods. Central doorcase Tuscan; the outer
ones have moulded imposts beneath coved triglyph blocks. Doors
are of 6 raised-and-fielded panels, with segment-headed
overlights, in keyed architraves. All windows are round-headed
single-pane sashes with aprons, those on ground floor in
Gibbsian surrounds, those on first floor in raised
architraves, all with grooved console keyblocks. Moulded
first-floor band, and moulded sillband on each floor, which on
first floor forms coping to attached balustrade with urn
finials beneath centre window. Moulded impost band on both
floors, on ground floor continuing across doorheads to form
transoms to overlights. Moulded eaves band and heavy cornice
on console brackets, beneath sunk panelled parapet with urn
finials on square piers. Besides providing premises for the
East Riding Bank, the building included living accommodation
for the first cashier, Thomas Reed, and offices rented by a
firm of solicitors, Messrs Walker and Langborne.
(Malton Messenger: East Riding Bank: 1866-; The Westminster
Bank in Leeds: 1960-).

Listing NGR: SE7859671599

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498329

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