Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE YORK BUILDINGS 736-1/10/212 (North West side) 16/12/74 National Westminster Bank

GV II

Bank. Dated 1904. Limestone ashlar with Flemish-bond brick infill, polished granite-faced plinth, red sandstone blocks to the doorcase and hipped pantile roof. Rectangular plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys. 2 facades of 4 bays to the right and 3 to the left flank a concave entrance bay on the corner. A balustrade over a dentilled cornice and entablature span both facades and is returned to both sides, it is supported by full-height Ionic columns in antis on pedestals which articulate the bays on the west and south facades; the pilasters flanking them are banded and the banding continues round the first floor of the entrance bay. This has a 6/6-pane sash window in a keyed moulded and shouldered architrave behind a convex stone balustraded balcony above a segmental open pediment to the Tuscan-style doorcase with blocking to the lower part of the columns and a wide C20 twelve-panel door. The first floor of each bay has 3 bands of alternate stone and brick, a 6/6-pane sash window in a keyed moulded shouldered architrave resting on a cill string-course between the columns. Below the moulded cill-course carved stone festoons of fruit on brick walls rest on the large keystones of the ground-floor windows. These have segmental arches with shouldered moulding over large 2-light fixed windows and decorative cast-iron railings on the cill (plinth) which has C20 ornamental railings. INTERIOR not inspected. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 98).

Listing NGR: ST2983037103

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: South and West (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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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House