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Latitude: 52.2276 / 52°13'39"N
Longitude: -2.7409 / 2°44'27"W
OS Eastings: 349492
OS Northings: 259083
OS Grid: SO494590
Mapcode National: GBR FK.1SW6
Mapcode Global: VH84W.F8WN
Plus Code: 9C4V67H5+2M
Entry Name: The Old Penny Bank
Listing Date: 14 August 1986
Last Amended: 15 March 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255406
English Heritage Legacy ID: 459646
ID on this website: 101255406
Location: Leominster, County of Herefordshire, HR6
County: County of Herefordshire
Civil Parish: Leominster
Built-Up Area: Leominster
Traditional County: Herefordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Herefordshire
Church of England Parish: Leominster
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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SO4959
808-1/1/81
LEOMINSTER
BURGESS STREET (South side)
The Old Penny Bank
(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by Powell, Price & Co. Ltd., previously Listed as: BURGESS STREET (South side) Powell, Price and Co. Ltd. Insurance Brokers)
14/08/86
GV
II
Penny bank, now offices. c1870, roof raised C20. Brick; hipped Welsh slate roof with shallow pitches; C20 altered central brick ridge stack, with mouldings to corbelled band. T-shaped on plan. Single storey; two-window range: paired two-light casements with elliptical heads under moulded stucco architraves on pilasters; flanked by brick corner-pilasters with corbelled eaves. Returned sides: C20 casements in stucco panels. Entrances in angles of wings: six-panel doors under gauged brick flat arches, in open porches with single arches to front and paired arches to sides, and cornice over. Gables of wings have twin two-light casements, with bands and C20 two-light casements, over; corner pilasters.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A rare survivor of the Penny Bank, among the earliest of working class savings institutions.
Listing NGR: SO4949259083
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