Former National Westminster Bank Parade Chambers

SHEFFIELD

SK3587SW HIGH STREET 784-1/24/429 (North West side) 28/06/73 No.1 Former National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET National Westminster Bank)

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Includes: No.1 Parade Chambers EAST PARADE. Bank, now shop and offices. Dated 1884, restored and altered late C20. By ME Hadfield & Son. Red brick with ashlar dressing and slate roofs with lead spires. 3 clustered coped brick side wall stacks with 4 octagonal flues. Tudor Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, corbel table with gargoyles, coped gables with finials. 4 and 5 storeys plus attics; 3 x 3 windows. Windows are mainly stone cross mullioned casements with round-headed lights. Double gabled front to High Street has to left a canted 3 storey oriel window with 3 lights on each floor, with crenellated parapet and ornate finial to spire. Right gable has two 3-storey canted bay windows with crenellated parapets. On each floor, a 3-light window with sidelights. Above, a 7-light window with central traceried blank panel and label mould. Above again, a small 3-light window. Left gable has 4 floors each with a 4-light window with traceried central blank panel, the top one with label mould. Above again, a small 3-light window. Ground floor has 5 flat-headed openings with chamfered piers, with off-centre door and 4 single pane windows. West front, to East Parade, has a near-central canted bay window, 4 stages, topped with an ornate spire. Single window on each floor, and crenellated parapet. To right, a double gabled block, 3 windows. To right, a canted bay window, 3 stages, with crenellated parapet and on each floor a 3-light window with sidelights. Above it, a 3-light window with hoodmould. To its right, on the first floor, a 2-light window. Left gable has a tall central recess with a 4 light window to the first floor, with a dated panel with relief portraits over it. Above, an 8-pane transomed window and above it, a similar 12 pane window, separated by a decorated frieze. Above them a 3-light transomed window. To left, a 3 window block with crenellated parapet. On each floor, two 2-light windows, and to their left a single transomed window. Ground floor has an elaborately moulded central entrance with billeted hood on scroll brackets. To its right, a single flat-headed window, then 2 flat-headed openings with C20 shop windows. To left, a moulded elliptical arch with a recessed C20 shop window, flanked to left by a pointed arched doorway with mullioned overlight. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: The West Riding: London: 1967-: 456).

Listing NGR: SK3546087462