The Yorkshire Bank

The Yorkshire Bank, on Coney Street, York, is a bank building constructed between 1922 and 1923 by Chorley Gribbon and Elcock for The Yorkshire Penny Bank. The exterior is built from pre-cast concrete and orange brick in English bond, with a rusticated concrete ground floor. A bold dentil and mutule eaves cornice of timber runs along the top, accompanied by dentilled brick stacks rising from the slate mansard roof.

The building is three storeys and has an attic, with a six-window front arranged in a 1:3:1:1 configuration, the first and fifth bays slightly projecting. These projecting bays feature pilastered doorcases with dentilled cornices, capped by massive mutuled pediment hoods broken by triple keyblocks and containing plain fanlights above the pediments. A subsidiary doorway on the right-hand end bay has a heavily rusticated keyed lintel and a panel enclosing a bayleaf wreath. Tall replacement windows are positioned between the bank doors, set above massive inset blocks housing bank machinery. A moulded ground floor cornice serves as a sill band for the first-floor windows.

On the first and second floors, the concrete projecting bays rise to low parapets above the eaves cornice. All upper floor windows are 12-pane sashes. Those on the first floor in the projecting bays have lugged and triple-keyed architraves with cornices; those on the second floor have keyed architraves with sills linked by aprons to those below. The second-floor windows in the centre and right-end bays incorporate a sill band with an apron beneath. Most windows have flat arches of gauged brick with concrete triple keyblocks, though those in the central bays have shaped keyblocks rising into the eaves cornice. The attic windows are dormers with 16-pane sashes beneath shallow, bracketed pediment gables. The original rainwater goods remain in the inner angles of the projecting bays. The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.

The building is considered to be of good quality and forms an important element of Coney Street.