6, 7 And 8, Fleet Street

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SX9163 FLEET STREET 885-1/17/98 (East side) 10/01/75 Nos.6, 7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: FLEET STREET Devon and Exeter Savings Bank)

GV II

Bank. 1889. Built as the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank. Bathstone ashlar to the front; brick to the rear; slate roof with lead rolls; stack with stone shaft with moulded cornice. "Very festive classical" style (Pevsner). PLAN: On a corner site, the front obtusely angled with entrance to banking hall in canted corner bay. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 4:1:2-bay front. Rusticated pilasters to left and right; deeply projecting dentil cornice at second-floor level, more delicate eaves dentil cornice. Ground-floor bays divided by engaged Doric columns with entablature; first floor with Ionic columns, the capitals enriched with grape carving with balustraded parapets to the windows which have eared architraves and carved panels above the lintels. Second-floor windows divided by carved panels. Canted corner rusticated to ground and first floor; pediment with foliage carving and datestone. Grand entrance with fluted Doric columns supporting deep moulded brackets to a first-floor balcony with a balustrade pierced with roundels. First-floor window with a moulded architrave and decoratively carved cornice on brackets. Ground-floor windows C20; office door in right-hand bay in pilastered doorcase. First- and second-floor windows glazed with 2-pane sashes. INTERIOR: Banking hall with coffered ceiling with egg-and-dart moulding. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: 1989-: P.857).

Listing NGR: SX9179863677