Yorkshire Bank and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Bank.
Yorkshire Bank and Railings
- WRENN ID
- quartered-dormer-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1973
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Yorkshire Bank and Railings, 5 and 7, Commercial Street
- OS grid reference
- SK 357 875
- Coordinates
- 53.38335, -1.46405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Yorkshire Bank and railings, located at Nos. 5 and 7 Commercial Street and including No. 2 Haymarket in Sheffield, is a mid-19th century building with mid-20th century alterations. It is constructed of ashlar with ashlar and pink granite dressings and is designed in the Italianate style. The former stock exchange, situated to the right, features a sill band, a channelled first floor, a cornice with a guilloche band, and a pierced balustrade. The building is a single storey plus basement with a six-window range. To the left, there is a pedimented granite doorcase with a small window above, and to the right, five windows are present.
The exterior includes area railings, which are interrupted by a 20th-century porch leading to the basement. The bank section on the left is two storeys plus an attic, featuring four by four windows. It has channelled rustication, a dentilled main cornice, a minor cornice, and a blocking course with a crest. The Commercial Street front displays four plain sash windows on the ground floor and four smaller sash windows above. The ground floor to the right has a granite plinth and two larger shouldered windows, while to the left, there is a late 20th-century channelled shopfront with a glazed door and overlight to the left and a window to the right.
On the Haymarket front, to the left, the upper floors have similar fenestration with three windows, and there is a set-back entrance bay with a single window on each floor. The ground floor features a similar 20th-century shopfront with three windows to the left and a glazed door and overlight to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Yorkshire Bank and Railings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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