Williams and Glyns Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Bank.
Williams and Glyns Bank
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-railing-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rotherham MP: Sarah Champion (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Williams and Glyns Bank, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 429 928
- Coordinates
- 53.43054, -1.35492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Williams and Glyn's Bank is a bank building constructed around 1892 by E. I. Hubbard for the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company. It is made of ashlar sandstone with polished Aberdeen granite columns and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys with attics and is situated on a corner site, featuring a curved corner bay. The facade facing High Street has five bays, while the facade facing Wellgate has six bays.
On the High Street side, there is a plinth with bases for giant Corinthian columns between each bay. The doorway in the second bay has quarter colonnettes in the jambs, and above it is a panel with raised lettering that reads 'OLD BANK / FOUNDED 1792'. This doorway is topped with a segmental pediment that includes elements of the Sheffield and Rotherham arms in the tympanum. The fifth bay features a doorway with an architrave and a plain panel beneath a consoled pediment. The first-floor band beneath the sash window in this bay has a bracketed, moulded sill and architrave. The other bays are recessed, with ground-floor casements that have bracketed sills, architraves, and pediments. There is a full entablature parapet with dies at bay intervals.
The corner bay and the bays on the Wellgate side are recessed and designed in the same style, except for the left-hand bay, which has a pedimented doorway and a paired first-floor window. The left return of the Wellgate front features earlier coursed-stone walling beneath white-glazed brickwork.
Inside, the banking hall retains a good original ceiling, and the manager's office features an 18th-century bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel. An earlier doorway was present on the left return of the Wellgate front.
Local climate
Williams and Glyns Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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