Bank House

LEEK

SJ9856NW ST EDWARD STREET 611-1/4/110 (West side) Nos.20 AND 22 Bank House

GV II

Bank, now in use as offices. 1885. Designed by W Owen of Warrington for Parrs Bank. Red brick with ashlar to ground floor and blue brick dressings. Slate roof. Venetian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 3-window range. Ground floor arcaded throughout with doorway to left, the windows grouped as 3, one and 2 lights. Single window is recessed with rusticated pilasters, the others have twisted pilasters, possibly cast-iron. Panelled door with plain fanlight to right. Moulded cornice over ground floor, then brickwork to upper storeys. Arcaded triple windows with heavy foliate capitals to piers each side of single central light. Continuous stone hoodmould links the windows, and there are also continuous bands of blue brick. Red and blue chequerwork brickwork above stone cornice to attic storey, which has similar windows of 3, one and 2 lights. Pedimented gable over paired right-hand windows, the roofline raised over hand block with eaves overhanging on console brackets, with mosaic panels set between the brackets. Return to High Street has 2 ground-floor windows with stone cartouche between, and 2 attic windows. End wall stacks. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9829456537