National Westminster Bank

LEEK

SJ9856SE DERBY STREET 611-1/7/58 (South side) 07/06/72 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: DERBY STREET District Bank)

GV II

Bank. Dated 1882. By William Larner Sugden. Brick with stone dressings, pargeting and plain-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4-window range. Ornate advanced gable over principal banking hall to right, with entrance in single-storeyed porch alongside. Rusticated piers to broken pedimented entrance, with lunette over the pediment, and cartouche inscribed 'Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Co. Ltd'. Enriched pilasters support segmental pediment above. Main gable has shallow segmental bow window to ground floor, the jettied upper storey having paired segmental oriels connected by balustraded balconette. Shaw-style windows with leaded glazing. Pargeting below and between the windows. Moulded bressumer to projecting gable apex, also enriched with pargeting incorporating painted shield of arms. 2-window range beyond, with lesser left-hand gable, articulated by moulded pilasters at jettied first storey. Mullioned windows of 3 and 4 lights to ground floor, mullioned and transomed windows with leaded upper panes above. Pargeting in apex of gable in right-hand return incorporating the date. Left-hand return has parallel wing forming 2 gables, each with pargeting in the apex. A third advanced gabled range beyond. Side entrance, possibly originally giving access to manager's accommodation. Massive end wall stacks, and a third in the angle of the advanced wing. Shallow segmental arch with tiled roof over giving access to rear, to left. INTERIOR: has marble and scagliola wall panelling to main banking hall, and much of the original enriched woodwork also survives. Frieze of William de Morgan tiles in porch.

Listing NGR: SJ9851756487