Yorkshire Bank Including Yorkshire Bank Chambers Entered From Downing Street

The following building shall be added:

SD 60 SE 2/66

LEIGH KING STREET (west side)

Nos 10 and 12 (Yorkshire Bank including Yorkshire Bank Chambers entered from Downing Street)

II

GV

Bank and attached bank chambers. C1900. Red ashlar sandstone on granite plinth; above ground floor is brick and terracotta under Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys and attic, 6 bays to King St. and 5 bays to Downing St. on right return; 2-storey, 3-bay bank chambers to rear, face Downing St. and are set behind iron-railed forecourt. Main facade: doorway on right has band-rusticated pilasters and archivolt with keystone under segmental pediment on foliated consoles. To left are 5 refenestrated openings divided by attached Doric columns set on the granite plinth; later sign beneath cornice. 1st floor: moulded sills and cavetto surrounds to round-headed windows divided by small triangular piers; foliated spandrels with cartouches; frieze with lozenges beneath cornice having triangular projections at each pier. Parapet interrupted by bay-2 dormer having 2-light window under frieze cornice and ball-finialled gable. Bays 3-6 have similar window under large shaped gable bearing coat of arms under segmental pediment with ball finials. Projecting end stack on left. Right return: generally as front; the ground floor with tripartite and 2-light openings, 2 roof dormers. Bank Chambers: round-arched 4-panel door on left and scattered fenestration beneath 2 half-dormers with arched 2-light windows.

Listing NGR: SD 65641 00075