Bank Chambers Th Old Bank

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD1969SE DUKE STREET 708-1/12/52 (South West side) 21/08/75 Nos.101-109 (Odd) including Bank Chambers and The Old Bank (105-109) (Formerly Listed as: DUKE STREET (South West side) Nos.101-109 (Odd))

GV II

Shops, offices and public house with flats over. c1865. Red brick partly stuccoed, slate roofs. 3 storeys; 2:2:2:3 bays with angled corner bay on right and 3:2 bay right return to Parade Street. Nos 101 & 103: later shop fronts; 1st-floor sill band to 4-pane sashes in shouldered and eared architraves with pulvinated friezes and cornices; 2nd floor: No.101 with sill band to plain sashes whilst No.103 has projecting sills to 4-pane sashes. No.105 (Bank Chambers): doorway on left of 2 tall windows, all set between rusticated ashlar piers under frieze and cornice; upper floors as No.103 but with plain sashes. Nos 107 & 109 (The Old Bank with flats over): channel-rusticated stucco to ground floor, the upper floors have plain stucco; 6-panel door on left (giving access to flats 107A and 107B) have overlight with decorative glazing bars; moulded sills to later casements, corner entrance; continuous frieze and cornice enriched with egg-and-dart. 1st floor: double sash and single sash in shouldered architraves with dentilled cornices, no window to corner bay. 2nd floor: projecting sills to 2 altered 4-pane sashes and two 12-pane sashes (including corner bay). Whole range has ashlar lintel band and eaves cornice; brick ridge stacks on the party walls.

Listing NGR: SD1966169290