Yorkshire Bank At Corner Of Eton Street

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TA02NE HESSLE ROAD 680-1/8/173 (South East side) Yorkshire Bank at corner of Eton Street

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Bank. Dated 1901. By JR Whitaker of Leeds for the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Brick with Westmorland slate roof with terracotta dressings and faience tile ground floor. French Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, ground floor cornice, string courses, coped gables. 3 storeys plus attics; 4x4 windows. Corner site with angled corner. First and second floor windows are plain sashes. Corner entrance bay has a 2-light window with stone mullion. Above, a smaller 3-light window flanked by octagonal pilasters with ball finials. Below the window, a cartouche. Above again, a steep pitched gabled dormer with a single light shouldered window flanked by coats of arms and with a cartouche below. Above and behind, a steep pitched pyramidal roof topped with a wrought-iron crest. Below, a segment-arched doorway flanked by octagonal piers topped with finials in the form of heraldic beasts holding shields. Fielded panelled double door with segment-headed mullioned overlight, and above it, a relief panel with a dated scroll. Main front, to Hessle Road, has two pairs of shouldered sashes. Above, 2 groups of 3 sashes divided and flanked by octagonal pilasters with ball finials, under a ramped coped parapet with 2 segmental pediments, each containing an inscribed tablet. Below the second floor windows, a band of relief decoration. Below, 2 segment-headed 3-light cross casements, under a cornice with 3 heraldic beasts holding shields. Left return front, to Eton Street, is of similar design with simplified ornament. To its left, a parapeted 2-storey range with a pair of sashes, and below, to left, a door.

Listing NGR: TA0797327745