Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/81 (South side)
08/03/96 No.66
National Westminster Bank including
gate to side passage

GV II

Bank. 1903-4 by W Campbell Jones of London for the Union of
London and Smiths Bank Limited. Limestone ashlar facing to
front, yellow brick to sides and rear with ashlar dressings.
Green slate roof. Edwardian Baroque.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical, with a
further single-bay section set back in passage to left.
Plinth, rock-faced rustication below ground-floor sill band.
Tall entrance to first bay has step to recessed door beneath
blocked overlight in architrave with pulvinated frieze carved
with openwork foliage, modillioned cornice and bracketed hood
carrying open scrolled pediment.
To right, tall narrow recessed windows in architraves with
sill band, carved pulvinated friezes and hoods. Frieze bearing
name-board at first-floor level. Central bay has a recessed
panel rising through the first and second floors in a deep
chamfered reveal beneath a keyed segmental arch breaking the
eaves cornice, the first floor with a tall sash in an
architrave with pulvinated frieze and keystone supporting a
segmental pediment, and a segmental-bowed balcony with blind
balustrade. Side bays have tall triple first-floor sashes in
architraves with bracketed pediments. Second floor has central
sash in keyed architrave with shallow canted balconette;
triple sashes to side bays in chamfered reveals with ornate
carved keystones. String course; deep modillioned cornice with
open pediment to central bay containing swags and a cartouche
bearing the company cypher.
Mansard roof with pair of flat-roofed 3-light dormers to side
bays. All windows have glazing bars. Coped gables. End stacks.
Left return has continuation of the eaves cornice, interrupted
by a deeply-recessed central panel containing a Diocletian
attic window in a chamfered reveal with keystone.
Side passage to left; recessed bay at end of passage has a
projecting single-storey entrance porch with a round-headed
fielded-panel door and radial fanlight in ashlar surround with
bracketed hood. Above this is a canted first-floor balcony and
a raised ashlar panel containing single 6/6 sashes to each
floor with a carved panel between. Rainwater-head here dated
1904.

INTERIOR: banking hall has a pair of Ionic-style columns,
panelled ceiling with ornate modillioned cornices with
paterae; centrepiece to north side has octagonal half-columns,
segmental pediment and a pair of arched alcoves containing
coats of arms and First World War memorial plaque. Original
features to upper floor, including moulded cornices.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: side passage to left has a wrought-iron
gateway to street with ornate scrollwork side panels and
overthrow.
(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.11; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.11; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.19).

Listing NGR: TA2694009353

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660120

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