Description

ASHBURTON

SX7569 EAST STREET
849-1/10/24 (South side)
No.2
Lloyds Bank

GV II

Bank. 1893. Rough-faced, squared and coursed sandstone rubble;
limestone dressings (possibly Bath stone). Red tiled roof with
pierced crested ridge-tiles. Sandstone chimney (matching the
walling) on each gable; arched panels on the sides, caps with
limestone mouldings. 2 storeys with garret. 4 windows wide.
Flemish Renaissance style. Ground storey flanked by
segmental-headed doorways with sharply-tapered fluted
pilasters; high entablature with segmental pediment, supported
by fluted bracket. Between the doorways, 2 shouldered-head
windows. Second storey has 2 canted bay windows in second
storey with a single-light window at either side, the bays
mullioned and all with Tudor-arched transom-lights. Large
shaped dormer gable over the centre; single-light window with
Tudor arch, urn finial. This was originally the Capital and
Counties Bank.
(Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon (2nd edition): London:
1989-: 133; Transaction of Devonshire Association: Satterly J:
Memoirs of Ashburton in Late Victorian Days (article): 1952-:
32).

Listing NGR: SX7560869861

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571818

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version