Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/75 (North side)
Nos.37, 39 AND 41
Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. 1913 by Garside and Pennington. Main section in ashlar,
section to Brewery Street in red brick with ashlar dressings.
Slate roof. Edwardian Classical style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; occupies corner site with main entrance
to corner, 3 bays to left to Victoria Street West and a single
bay to Brewery Street with a recessed 4-bay section to right.
Moulded marble plinth. Channelled rustication to ground floor
and full-height angle pilasters. Tall recessed entrance has
C20 glazed doors in original surround with architrave, carved
dosserets with hanging foliate drops and pulvinated frieze,
moulded cornice and blocking course carrying first-floor sill
string course. To left, 3 round-arched windows with margin
glazing bars in deep hollow-chamfered reveals with bold
keystones. Upper storeys have vertical panels to each bay,
containing a first-floor plate-glass casement with projecting
lintel and corniced hood, raised panel at second-floor level,
2-light second-floor mullioned window with glazing bars.
Entablature with modillioned cornice, tall panelled blocking
course forming parapet, with raised section above corner bay
bearing a carved wreath.
Brewery Street front has single similar bay flanking entrance
to left, and recessed 4-bay section with similar details but
in red brick with ashlar windows and dressings, the
ground-floor section without rustication, and with windows in
plain-chamfered arched reveals linked by flush ashlar bands;
similar cornice to main front but without parapet.
INTERIOR: banking hall has panelled ceiling with foliate
modillioned cornices, panelled dado and pilastered wall
arcading, wood panelling with carved overdoor and elaborate
C18-style chimneypiece with pedimented overmantel and carved
tympanum.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.16; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.16; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 15).

Listing NGR: TA2684509355

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660115

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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