Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE ATTERCLIFFE ROAD
784-1/6/43 (North West side)
11/02/92 No.749
Royal Bank of Scotland

GV II

Bank and manager's house. 1901. Red brick with ashlar and
granite dressings and hipped slate roof with 2 coped side wall
stacks. Renaissance Revival style.
EXTERIOR: plinth, rusticated corner pilasters, modillion
eaves, balustrade with pedestals. 3 storeys plus attics; 4 x 3
windows.
On the first floor, 3 plain sashes with double keystones, and
above, 3 smaller sashes, all with projecting surrounds. Above
again, a box dormer. Below, slightly projecting portico with 2
granite Doric columns, flanking pilasters and entablature. 3
round-arched openings with voussoirs and enriched keystones,
with two 2-light casements to right, with scrolled
wrought-iron guards. To left, a pair of glazed doors with
round-headed lights and oval toplights with glazing bars, and
wrought-iron gates.
Beyond, to right, entrance bay to manager's house. Oval first
floor window with keystone, and above, a set back bay with a
plain sash. Below, a moulded ashlar doorcase with scroll
keystone and segment-headed half-glazed door and overlight.
Above the door, a small plain sash. Left return has
fenestration identical to the front, but with 3 ground floor
windows.
INTERIOR: largely original interior has banking hall with
heavily enriched cornice and cross beam ceiling. Moulded
round-arched windows with scroll keystones, those to the left
return with etched glass. Panelled wooden counter with fluted
columns topped with grotesques, and segment-headed glazed
screens behind. 3 pedimented doorcases with pulvinated friezes
and panelled doors. Elaborate wooden internal porch with
glazed double doors and 4 oval mirrors.
(An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation
Areas: RCHME: Sheffield: London: 1989-: 12).

Listing NGR: SK3797088887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538914

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