Bank House

THETFORD

TL8683 BRIDGE STREET 617-1/5/7 (North West side) 10/03/71 Nos.2 AND 4

GV II

Includes: Bank House MINSTERGATE. Includes: No.1 MINSTERGATE. Range of shops, now bank and shop. Early C19. Gault brick and slate roofs. Recessed 5-bay block with projecting wings right and left. 2 storeys. Between side wings is a single-storey C20 extension now forming entrance. Ground floor with rusticated brick plinth. Projecting centre bay under pediment. 5 unhorned sashes with 6/6 glazing bars. Dentil eaves cornice below low parapet and gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks. Left (south) wing with 3 late C19 round-headed sashes separated by engaged columns to ground floor. Above is a tripartite sash under a segmental arch, also late C19. Right is a sash blocked in C20. Right (north) wing with a mid C19 plate-glass shop front with a row of upper lights. Egg-and-dart cornice below pediment with dentils. One sash to left, formerly 6/6, now without upper glazing bars. 2 similar, intact, first-floor sashes. Wings have hipped roofs reduced in size and rebuilt C20. Scattered stacks. Rear with a 2-panelled door at first-floor level: 7-vaned fanlight, engaged Tuscan columns and open segmental pediment, not in situ. (Crosby A: A History of Thetford: Chichester: 1986-: PL 25).

Listing NGR: TL8687483144