Trustee Savings Bank

KIRKHAM POULTON STREET SD 43 SW 9/29 Trustee Savings Bank - - II

Former girls' charity school, now banking hall, 1860. Brick (in Flemish bond) with sand-stone dressings, axial stacks and coped gables. Gothic Revival. Single storey schoolroom to left of front door and (?) school-mistress' house to right, with broad archway for passage to back garden at far right. Doorway has a two-centre arch under a hoodmould and a glazed tympanum divided into three by mullions. Central bay between buttresses has to left of door a 7-light window with steeply pointed cusped lights under a continuous hoodmould. Left-hand bay has a similar window of 2-lights. Mistress' house has a gable and a gabled dormer to the window above the side arch. The gable facade has, on the ground floor, 2 lancets with hoodmoulds, between which stands an engaged semi-octagonal pier which carries a semi-circular stone first-floor oriel with 3 lights similar to those in the school room. History: Built at the expense of Thomas Langton Birley of Carr Hill for the girls' charity school, founded in 1760 on another site.

Listing NGR: SD4249532132