Description

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/67 (East side)
05/04/67 No.137
Ye Olde Bank House

GV II

House, now restaurant. Late C18 or early C19. Brick with
stucco front; Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Plain parapet. Shop front to right of
centre has frieze, cornice and parapet over C20 door with
decorative glazing and flanking canted bay windows with
colonnettes and upper lights with decorative glazing; panel
above has reeded frame to raised lettering: YE OLD BANK HOUSE.
2-storey canted bay window to left has cornices over plate
glass sashes to ground floor and 4/4:8/8:4/4 sashes to first
floor.
Right return has some segmental-headed windows with
small-paned iron glazing with pivoted lights. Rear has 2
gabled wings, one with 10/10 sash.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: an agency of the bank of Tomes, Chattaway and Ford
was established here by Richard Burman, draper, in the early
C19, the first bank in Henley-in-Arden.
(Cooper W: Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town:
Birmingham: 1946-: 100).

Listing NGR: SP1510366051

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662380

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)