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WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NW LICHFIELD STREET 895-1/11/254 (North side) 12/02/75 Nos.1 AND 3 Barclay's Bank

GV II

Bank. 1876, with later alterations. By T.H.Fleeming. Ashlar with red sandstone shafts; tile roof. High Victorian Gothic style. 3 storeys; 7-bay range, with canted corner bay to left. Ground floor has sill course, impost band and cornice with stiff-leaf decoration, 2nd floor sill band and top modillioned cornice. First 2 and 6th bays break forward under gables. Straight-headed ground floor windows have fixed glazing and foliate capitals; upper windows have sashes; 1st floor has pointed windows of 2 orders with foliate capitals to shafts, the 6th bay of 3 pointed lights with bracketed balcony; 2nd floor has straight-headed windows, with capitals to shafts; 6th bay has stepped triplet of pointed lights. Gable to 1st 2 bays has rose window and end stack. Canted corner bay has similar details and pointed entrance with flanking arches on round piers with iron grilles; inner entrance of 2 orders; top gable has blind lancet. Return to Lich Gates of 5 bays, 4th bay has entrance of 2 orders blocked for cashcard machines, oriel window above and top gable with rose. Rear of 9 bays, the 1st 4 bays of 2 storeys with tall 1st floor, gabled arch over 1st bay of ground floor; next 5 bays of 3 storeys, hood to 1st bay of ground floor, gables to 5th 7th and 8th bays. Right return has 2-storey projection with panelled parapet and octagonal turret with embattled parapet, single-storey re-entrant block with gabled entrance to Lichfield Street. INTERIOR has late C20 banking hall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.318).

Listing NGR: SO9143798731

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