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Former Barclays Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Latitude: 53.3065 / 53°18'23"N

Longitude: -2.3738 / 2°22'25"W

OS Eastings: 375186

OS Northings: 378900

OS Grid: SJ751789

Mapcode National: GBR CZV6.WF

Mapcode Global: WH997.H5T1

Plus Code: 9C5V8J4G+HF

Entry Name: Former Barclays Bank

Listing Date: 24 July 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1388384

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476394

ID on this website: 101388384

Location: Knutsford, Cheshire East, Cheshire, WA16

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Knutsford

Built-Up Area: Knutsford

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Knutsford St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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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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