2 Station Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Former savings bank.

2 Station Hill

WRENN ID
eternal-lancet-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Country
England
Date first listed
1 December 1951
Type
Former savings bank
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

2 Station Hill is a former savings bank, later used as offices, and now a club. It was opened in 1827 and has undergone alterations. The building features a colour-washed render, likely on granite, and slurried slate roofs. It has a double-depth plan with a front range that is two storeys high and three bays wide, topped by a hipped roof with flanking chimney stacks. The symmetrical front elevation is designed in a classical style, featuring a plinth, channelled corner pilasters, and a ground floor that includes a wide recessed loggia supported by two pairs of Tuscan columns in antis. This loggia is adorned with a triglyph frieze and a moulded cornice, and it has ornamental wrought iron railings between the columns, which display scrolls and intersecting curves. Within the loggia, there is a central doorway with double doors and two 16-pane sashed windows with internal shutters. The first floor has three tall 12-pane sashed windows with raised sills and keystones. The projecting eaves feature a soffit decorated with moulded plaster panels and roundels, and the hipped roof has a shallow pitch with side-wall chimneys located towards the rear. The rear range also has a hipped roof.

Historically, savings banks were created to provide the working classes with financial independence, a movement encouraged by politician George Rose, who helped establish the Savings Banks (England) Act 1817. The first savings bank in Redruth opened in January 1818, and this building became the bank's new premises around 1827. The upper floor was used for accommodation for a salaried officer. The building was enlarged at the rear between the 1850s and 1870s and closed as a bank in 1892. It then served as the Redruth Urban District Council offices from 1894 to 1934, as noted on a plaque on the front elevation.

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