Yorkshire Bank, Peel Square Including Number 19 Market Hill

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BARNSLEY PEEL SQUARE (north side), Barnsley Yorkshire Bank including No 19 Market Hill (west side)

GV II

Bank and shop premises. 1857 (Tasker). Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys and attics. 2 bays to Peel Square, one round corner bay, 4 bays to Market Hill plus a further single bay and a rounded corner bay which both belong to No 19. Corner site. Italianate style. Rusticated ground floor. Rusticated quoins to ends and corner bays at 1st-and 2nd-floor level. Square-headed entrance in corner bay with architrave, swagged frieze and cornice. Segmental-headed ground- floor windows with voussoirs, dropped keystones and aprons. C20 shop frontage to No 19. Modillioned 1st-floor cornice. Round-arched 1st-floor windows have architraves with pilasters, motifs in spandrels, friezes and cornices. Similar paired lights to 5th bay (No 19). Segmental-headed 2nd-floor windows on sill band, with eared architraves and dropped keystones. Similar paired lights to 5th bay (No 19). Heavily modillioned eaves cornice with ashlar parapet. Surmounting the corner bay is a good lead lantern with swept sides and elliptical lights. Later C20 dormer windows. Hipped roof.

The premises were built as the Coach and Horses Public House, and became a bank in 1912.

E. G. Tasker, Barnsley Streets Vol II, 1974.

Listing NGR: SE3444606362