Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 KING STREET
792-1/3/67 (East side)
24/07/92 No.127
Former Barclays Bank

GV II

Formerly known as: Union Bank KING STREET.
Bank. Purpose-built 1856. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh
slate roof.
2 storeys; 5-window range, with shallow hipped roofed wing
projecting to the left. Main entrance to left in this wing, in
heavy stone porch, the round-arched entrance carried on squat
marble columns and surmounted by deep entablature. Heavy
arcading to paired windows to right, the deep round arches
carried on marble shafts. Recessed plate traceried windows.
Secondary doorway to left of right-hand block, with stilted
arched entablature. Tripartite sash window alongside, with
stilted entablature. Continuous string course beneath
first-floor windows which are all sashes in stilted arches,
the hoodmould continuous in the left-hand wing, the right-hand
windows stressed with entablature hoods. Heavy moulded stone
eaves cornice. Axial stack.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Cheshire: Harmondsworth:
1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ7518678900

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667935

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings