Description

SJ 3590 NE PRESCOT STREET L3

51/909 No 1(Barclays Bank) 12.7.66

G.V. II

Includes No 2 Moss Street. Bank. Early C20. Portland stone with granite ground floor and slate roof. 3 storeys and attic. 1 bay to Prescot Street, canted corner bay and 5 bays to Moss Street. Ground floor has round headed windows with triple keystones; corner bay has entrance flanked by Ionic columns, and cornice. Ground floor windows have casements, others are sashed with glazing bars. Upper 2 storeys to corner bay are framed by giant Ionic columns, with a round eye above a window with broken pediment and balustraded balcony. Moss Street facade has 1st floor windows with eared architraves, triple keystones and cornices, the central window has open pediment. 2nd floor paired windows with Tuscan colonnettes. Attic on mansard roof has alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Octagonal corner tower with swags, upper stage has round- arched openings with triple keystones and convex balustraded balconies between sided cornice and stone cupola with urn. Prescot Street facade has a Venetian window on 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SJ3578290850

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014