Description

ULVERSTON

SD2878 COUNTY SQUARE 626-1/3/12 (South side) Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. Built c1902 as the Liverpool Bank. Snecked red sandstone on a limestone plinth with red sandstone ashlar dressings, slate roof, and a copper dome. 2 storeys. Built in a Jacobean style, with an irregular plan on a corner site, with mullioned and transomed windows and with shaped gables with ball finials. At eaves level there is a band of carved foliage decoration. The ground-floor windows have leaded lights in lozenge patterns. At the corner there is a canted bay window which rises above eaves level as a domed octagonal turret. To its right is a doorway with a segmental pediment carried on granite columns, and farther right a wider gabled bay aligned with Cavendish Street. To the left of the turret a narrow bay links it with a wide projecting gabled bay. To its left there is a projecting chimney breast with a doorway to its right flanked by pilasters and narrow lights, under a segmental shell pediment. A gable with mullioned and transomed windows faces south-east towards County Street.



Listing NGR: SD2865178187

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version