The Old Penny Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1986. Bank.
The Old Penny Bank
- WRENN ID
- grim-stair-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1986
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 January 2023 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SO4959 808-1/1/81
LEOMINSTER BURGESS STREET (South side) The Old Penny Bank
(Formerly listed as Premises occupied by Powell, Price & Co. Ltd., previously Listed as: BURGESS STREET (South side) Powell, Price and Co. Ltd. Insurance Brokers)
14/08/86
GV II Penny bank, now offices. c1870, roof raised C20. Brick; hipped Welsh slate roof with shallow pitches; C20 altered central brick ridge stack, with mouldings to corbelled band. T-shaped on plan. Single storey; two-window range: paired two-light casements with elliptical heads under moulded stucco architraves on pilasters; flanked by brick corner-pilasters with corbelled eaves. Returned sides: C20 casements in stucco panels. Entrances in angles of wings: six-panel doors under gauged brick flat arches, in open porches with single arches to front and paired arches to sides, and cornice over. Gables of wings have twin two-light casements, with bands and C20 two-light casements, over; corner pilasters.
INTERIOR not inspected.
A rare survivor of the Penny Bank, among the earliest of working class savings institutions.
Listing NGR: SO4949259083
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