Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 KING STREET 792-1/3/67 (East side) 24/07/92 No.127 Former Barclays Bank

GV II

Formerly known as: Union Bank KING STREET. Bank. Purpose-built 1856. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 5-window range, with shallow hipped roofed wing projecting to the left. Main entrance to left in this wing, in heavy stone porch, the round-arched entrance carried on squat marble columns and surmounted by deep entablature. Heavy arcading to paired windows to right, the deep round arches carried on marble shafts. Recessed plate traceried windows. Secondary doorway to left of right-hand block, with stilted arched entablature. Tripartite sash window alongside, with stilted entablature. Continuous string course beneath first-floor windows which are all sashes in stilted arches, the hoodmould continuous in the left-hand wing, the right-hand windows stressed with entablature hoods. Heavy moulded stone eaves cornice. Axial stack. INTERIOR: not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).



Listing NGR: SJ7518678900

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