Barclays Bank

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST 699-1/21/75 (North side) Nos.37, 39 AND 41 Barclays Bank

GV II

Bank. 1913 by Garside and Pennington. Main section in ashlar, section to Brewery Street in red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Edwardian Classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; occupies corner site with main entrance to corner, 3 bays to left to Victoria Street West and a single bay to Brewery Street with a recessed 4-bay section to right. Moulded marble plinth. Channelled rustication to ground floor and full-height angle pilasters. Tall recessed entrance has C20 glazed doors in original surround with architrave, carved dosserets with hanging foliate drops and pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course carrying first-floor sill string course. To left, 3 round-arched windows with margin glazing bars in deep hollow-chamfered reveals with bold keystones. Upper storeys have vertical panels to each bay, containing a first-floor plate-glass casement with projecting lintel and corniced hood, raised panel at second-floor level, 2-light second-floor mullioned window with glazing bars. Entablature with modillioned cornice, tall panelled blocking course forming parapet, with raised section above corner bay bearing a carved wreath. Brewery Street front has single similar bay flanking entrance to left, and recessed 4-bay section with similar details but in red brick with ashlar windows and dressings, the ground-floor section without rustication, and with windows in plain-chamfered arched reveals linked by flush ashlar bands; similar cornice to main front but without parapet. INTERIOR: banking hall has panelled ceiling with foliate modillioned cornices, panelled dado and pilastered wall arcading, wood panelling with carved overdoor and elaborate C18-style chimneypiece with pedimented overmantel and carved tympanum. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.16; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.16; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 15).

Listing NGR: TA2684509355