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Latitude: 54.9986 / 54°59'54"N
Longitude: -1.4323 / 1°25'56"W
OS Eastings: 436412
OS Northings: 567257
OS Grid: NZ364672
Mapcode National: GBR LBFM.PY
Mapcode Global: WHD4R.ZM3D
Plus Code: 9C6WXHX9+C3
Entry Name: Barclays Bank
Listing Date: 1 February 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232198
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407487
ID on this website: 101232198
Location: South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE33
County: South Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Beacon and Bents
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: South Shields
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: South Shields St Hilda with St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Bank building
1.
5102 KING STREET
(south side)
No 1
(Barclays Bank)
NZ 3667 SW 4/34
II GV
2.
Includes No 2 Fowler Street.
1909 J H Morton Architect.
Ashlar. Three storeys and 7 bays. Quadrant plan linking King Street to Fowler
Street.
Ground floor heavily rusticated above a high plain plinth. Windows, central entrance
and door from Fowler Street have semi-circular hooded openings with scrolled keystones.
First floor openings have architraves and alternating triangular and segmental
pediments. Continuous cill band and cast iron balconies.
Second floor windows have moulded architraves. All crowned by an entablature with
modillion cornice and a balustraded parapet.
Each end bay broken forward to form a pavilion. Ionic pilasters rising above ground
floor support open pediments. The tympanum of each pediment contains a cartouche.
A good example of early C20 "Bankers Classical" in South Shields standing in a
prominent position.
Listing NGR: NZ3641267257
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