Natwest Bank And Bank Chambers

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BARROW IN FURNESS, Dalton In Furness, MARKET STREET (North side), No. 67 Natwest Bank and Bank Chambers

(Formerly listed as No.69, National Westminster Bank and Bank Chambers)

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Bank and offices. c1895. For the Lancaster Banking Co. Ltd. Rock-faced and ashlar limestone, graduated slate roofs. 2 storeys and attic with 2:1:2-bay facade wrapped around corner of Nelson Street and Market Street. Battered plinth with recessed window aprons. Ground floor has sill band and channelled, rock-faced rustication; moulded sill bands to upper floors. Corner entrance: later double doors and plain fanlight under archivolt with insignia on keystone; rusticated ashlar piers and carved corbels support balustraded balcony with emblems and word 'BANK'. 1st floor has tall, paired sashes in moulded surrounds; carved aprons to similar attic windows in half-dormer with pedimented shield over. Both returns have recessed, tripartite sashes under segmental arches with carved keystones (single sash to left of doorway). Frieze with shields and original bank name masked by sign; dentilled cornice forms 1st-floor sills to plain sashes under flat arches with cornices and pedimented keystones. 2nd floor: bracketed sills to plain sashes in half-dormers with cornices and peaked blocking courses. Interrupted eaves have string course and corbel-table to moulded, cast-iron gutter. Hipped roof with finial and corniced ashlar stacks set to rear and at right end. Side wing: entrance to Bank Chambers in angle on right has panelled door and cornice on shaped bracket; double sash on each floor to left and single sash over door; broad end stack on left. Rear of wing has margin-glazed stair window with leaded and stained glass. INTERIOR: low banking hall ceiling in geometric panels with fleur-de-lys and lion motifs; modillioned cornice with egg and dart. Segmental arches through to rear, that on right with leaded glass, dentilled transom and cornice. Bank Chambers: original staircase with landing across stair window. Good example of local town bank in little altered state. Original plans submitted in 1892. (Building Plans Register: 1892-: 486).

Listing NGR: SD2294874060