Description

BURFORD AND UPTON SHEEP STREET
AND SIGNET (North side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Lloyds Bank
7/189

GV II

Bank. Dated 1878. Freestone front on plinth, machine tile roof.
Asymmetrical elevations in Gothic vernacular style. 2 storeys and attic.
Mullion windows of 2, 3 and 4 lights with muscular stop chamfers to heads
of mullions, triangular-head lintels with relieving arches over. 2 gables
to front, the right-hand one projecting with bold 2-storey 1:3:1-light bay
capped by a stone roof with crocketed corners. Cornices over ground floor
and below 1st floor windows forming panel inscribed with Gothic lettering
"Bank County of Gloucester (Limited) Branch." Three bays to left-hand,
gable over central bay with narrow attic casements; slight 1st floor sill-
band to left; steep Venetian pointed-arch to right (near right-hand bay)
with nook shafts, foliate caps, glazed tympanum and panelled doors,
decorated outer order with cock-bead. Later matching ashlar extension to
left. Coursed rubble returns. L-plan to rear. Ashlar chimneys with
moulded capping and stepped bases. A good example of a Victorian County
Bank.

Listing NGR: SP2506512180

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519361

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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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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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)