Barclays Bank

SJ 28 NW 1755-/4/10003

HOYLAKE GRANGE ROAD No 22 Barclays Bank

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Bank and dwelling house with attached doorway and boundary wall. Early C20, with late C20 alterations. Free Baroque style. Ashlar sandstone and red brick with ashlar dressings. Ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps, and Westmorland slate roof coverings with clay ridge and hip ridge tiles. Dominant corner site building 'L' shaped on plan, with banking premises and dwelling beneath a single roof to south-east, and the principal banking hall elevation to the north east. The bank entrance is expressed as a tower at the eastern angle between the two street frontage ranges. Doorway flanked by coupled Doric columns set upon a deep plinth, and with a plainly moulded surround below a deep ashlar lintel. Double two panel entrance doors. Plain fascia and cornice with mutules supports a depressed segmental pediment. First stage of fully expressed square tower rises from behind the pediment. Moulded string course defines second stage with central oculus below hood mould, and diminutive pinnacles to corners with banded finials. Tiered upper stage with tall semi circular headed opening flanked by diminutive engaged Doric columns, with an open pediment above. Tower terminates at leaded flattened dome. North- east elevation of three bays defined by engaged Doric columns rising from a deep plinth, below a fascia and cornice extending from the east doorway. First bay with glazing bar window, second and third bays with full height mullion and transom windows, 4 lights wide and 3 lights high, with leaded glazing. The central tier of lights to the third bay is blind. Above the third bay a 5-light gabled dormer window linked to the corner tower by two bays of stone balustrading. South-east elevation of four bays, the two banking hall bays repeating the details of the corresponding bays to the south-east, but terminating at coupled columns. Remaining two bays of red brick and of 2 storeys are set back from frontage line of banking hall, and have domestic detailing, with stacked 4-light mullion windows having heads and sills set in ashlar bands. First floor windows below continuous string course, which is returned onto the south-west elevation. Attic floor with 3 light gabled dormer and added 3 light flat roofed dormer. Entrance doorway to rear yard attached at south corner, with and ashlar jambs, and pediment. Attached brick boundary wall with ashlar band and coping defines street boundary of yard. Interior: Banking hall altered, but with unaltered coffered ceilings with decorative plaster motifs, and windows with contemporary leaded lights, some with coloured decorative work.

Listing NGR: SJ2128886896