Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Town house, bank. 3 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- bitter-groin-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Town house, bank
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP2055SW 604-1/8/16 25/10/51
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON BRIDGE STREET (North side) No.20 Barclays Bank
GV II
Formerly known as: No.20 Shakespeare Gallery Restaurant BRIDGE STREET. Town house now bank. Rebuilt after 1641 fire, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-frame with brick rear wing; tile roof. Largely C20 timber-framed facade. 3 storeys; 2-window range; 1st and 2nd floors jettied; 2 gables. Late C20 ground floor recessed behind 2 posts to bressumer (recorded as having 2 caryatids, 1972). 1st floor has paired 18-pane sashes; 2nd floor has late C19 four-light transomed projecting windows. Close-studded framing; moulded barge-boards with finials. Some timber-framing visible to left return, and ogee-headed stair windows to 1st and 2nd floors with small-paned glazing. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with fretted splat balusters, moulded handrail with dentils and square balusters, some with finials; exposed timber-framing. Recorded as having traces of frescoes dated 1677 and earlier foundations visible to basement (Forrest). (Forrest H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon: London: 1925-: 52-4; Bearman R: Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings: Nelson: 1988-: 17).
Listing NGR: SP2015855013
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