Description

MARKET SQUARE
1.
5125
(South Side)
LEIGHTON BUZZARD
No 2 (Barclays Bank)
SP 9225 1/57

II GV

2.
1866 by Alfred Watarhouse in Gothic style. Bath stone, Welsh slated roof with
3 dormer windows. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor has 5 large cusped pointed
arches, ventral doorway flanked by windows. The arches rest on moulded responds
aid colonnettes with stiff leaf capitals, 1st floor has 5 pairs of rectangular
windows, colonnettes dividing each pair. Eaves cornice on brackets decorated
with leaf carving. Stone chimney stacks. Built for local bank, Basset & Co
(See also The Knolls, Plantation Road, for F Bassett by Norman Shaw).

Nos 2 to 6 (even) form a group with No 50 High Street.

Listing NGR: SP9215425032

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408353

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