16 High Street

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SX 8060 SW 1/51

HIGH STREET (South Side) No 16

(Formerly listed as No 16 (Barclay's Bank))

7.1.52.

GV II*

Circa 1585 in Dutch Renaissance manner; the front was raised and re-fenestrated in the later C18, and the ground floor loggia infilled. The building was originally of "deux corps de batiments" type; the separate kitchen block and gallery were demolished in 1968. The building became the Naval Bank in 1902. Three storeys. Three windows. Hipped Welsh slate roof. Plastered timber-framed front. Modillion eaves cornice. Decorated plaster friezes with lozenge motifs and date "1585" and initials "N.B" (first floor). Rusticated pilasters on quoins to first and second floors. (former frieze of second floor removed when building was heightened).

Later C18, linked, architraved sash windows to first and second floors with glazing bars. Former ground floor loggia with three bay Tuscan colonnade with semi-elliptical arches and enriched spandrels.

Mid C19 segmental arched sash window infill to colonnade. House doorway with re-hung original doors of 1585 with pilasters carrying semi-elliptical blind arch (repeating motif of colonnade); rusticated panel infill with wrought iron pegs.

Interior remodelled but retains fine first floor plaster ceiling decorated with rib work enriched with floral motifs. Ceiling beam and frieze decorated with rose motifs and roundels inscribed "M.E." (M. Laithwaite)

Listing NGR: SX8021260429