Description

The following building shall be added to the list:-
LEWISHAM WAY
TQ3776
(east side)
8/10020 No 239
Former Barclay's Bank

GV II

Includes: Former Barclay's Bank FRIENDLY STREET.

Former bank premises, now converted to flats; designed in 1885 and built in about 1886 by J and
J S Edmeston for the London and South West Bank Ltd. Red brick and buff terracotta in a baronial
style, a rectangular comer building of two narrow bays to front and three and half bays to side,
three storeys and attic. Ground-floor entirely clad in buff terracotta with projecting base, falling
with slope of Friendly Street to side. Pilaster strips ascend to first floor, where form arcade with
voussoirs set into a plain band in the manner of a Gibbs surround. Broad sill band under second
floor, from which sprout bartizans. Heavily-modelled modillion cornice below parapet, gable and
dormers. Single gable to Lewisham Way with pair of dormers to Friendly Street, all with inverted
volutes and much ornamentation in the Serlian manner. Smaller dormer behind parapet with
hipped slate roof and iron cresting. Terracotta copings to gables and dormers, whilst the bartizans
are finished with terracotta spirelets. All windows are casements with mullions and transoms set in
terracotta architrave surrounds with banded decoration. Projecting terracotta porch with
ornamented pediment, and frieze bearing epitet 'BANK', supported on extended openwork
consoles. Second floor has 'BANK BUILDINGS' inscribed into cut-brick cartouche. Area railings
to Friendly Street. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3708376382

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082524

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback