1, St Georges Square

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BARROW IN FURNESS ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (West side) No.1

(Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE No.1 Hospital Education Centre)

06/05/76

GV II

Former bank. Dated 1864. For the Lancaster Banking Company. Ashlar limestone with brick to rear, graduated slate roof. Two storeys, 4:1:3 bays wrapped around corner of The Strand and St George's Square. Moulded plinth; rusticated ground floor; recessed corner bay set on curve. Plain sashes now partially replaced by casements. A pair of doorways to St George's Square are set in raised panel: each has pilasters with composite capitals and archivolt with mask keystone. Right-hand doorway has eight-panel door and plain fanlight; left-hand doorway is now a window. Sash on right has sunken apron, recessed surround and segmental arch with keystone; continuous cornice. A brass nameplate to right of front door commemorates ‘The Lancaster Banking Company Limited’. First-floor sill band to similar, but square-headed, window surrounds. String course below modillions to simple cornice with blocking course. Corner bay lit by segmentally-arched window to each floor; blocking course has scrolled supports and anthemion to display an oval date plaque (now missing). Hipped roof; ridge stack and end stacks with modillioned cornices. Left return windows as front.

INTERIOR: original staircase with cast-iron balustrade panels and wreathed mahogany handrail; margin-glazed ceiling light. Banking hall ceiling now underdrawn.

Listing NGR: SD2020568728