Description

SHEFFIELD

SK38NE QUEEN'S ROAD 784-1/6/609 (South East side) No.635 Trustee Savings Bank

II

Bank. Built for Sheffield Savings Bank (Heeley Branch). Dated 1900. Ashlar with hipped slate and lead roofs. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, sillband, main cornice, balustrade with pedestals topped with urns. Frieze inscribed "Sheffield Savings Bank". 2 storeys; 2 x 3 bays. Square plan with corner entrance. Rounded corner entrance bay has a ramped coped parapet containing a clock. On the first floor, 2 round-arched windows with keystones. Below, doorcase with flanking Doric columns and curved entablature with the frieze inscribed "Heeley Branch". Panelled double doors with overlight. Left return, to London Road, has 2 tall round-arched glazing bar windows with shaped keystones, alternating with partly fluted Ionic pilasters. Right return has 2 similar windows and to right, an entrance bay with 2 round-arched windows above and a flat-headed doorway below, with panelled door and overlight to right and a small window below, all under a foliage frieze. INTERIOR has coffered ceiling with panelled cornice. Dado and wall tiling to three quarter height in moulded glazed tiles with floral designs in green and yellow. Angled internal wooden porch with tiled walls, cornice and half-glazed double doors with round-headed overlights. Full width wooden counter with Classical detailing with a half-glazed door at each end, that to right altered. Behind the counter, 3 panelled doorcases with entablatures, and a canted glazed office enclosure with cornice.

Listing NGR: SK3524985359

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