Description

ULVERSTON

SD2878
626-1/3/106
20/06/72

QUEEN STREET
(West side)
No.2
National Westminster Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN STREET
(West side)
No.2)

GV
II

Bank and attached house, now bank and offices. Mid C19.
Probably by Websters of Kendal. Limestone ashlar with slate
roofs.
2 separate facades. The former house to the left is of 3
storeys and 4 bays, with a rusticated ground floor and a
moulded cornice. The 3 right-hand bays project forwards under
a pediment and have round-arched ground-floor windows,
1st-floor windows with architraves and with cornices on
console brackets, and 2nd-floor windows with pilaster reveals.
The left-hand bay is blind on the ground floor and has windows
with plain reveals above. The windows are mostly sashed, with
glazing bars to those on the ground floor. Rising above the
pediment there is a chimney cap with cornice.
The main bank facade is set back slightly to the right and is
of 3 storeys and 3 bays with a rock-faced plinth, a rusticated
ground floor, a 2nd-floor sill band, and a strongly projecting
modillion cornice. A central die is flanked by carved scrolled
brackets and inscribed 'BANK'. The windows have lugged
architraves. Those on the 1st floor have pediments, segmental
in the centre and triangular to each side. They are sashed
except for the left-hand one on the 2nd floor which is now
divided into casements. The left-hand window opening on the
ground floor now contains a cash dispenser. The recessed porch
is formed by 2 Tuscan columns in antis under a cornice. The
inner doorway has a round arch with lion mask keystone.
Chimneys to left and right with limestone caps.
INTERIOR: the large banking hall remains and has a
compartmented ceiling with 3 lantern lights. The walls have a
continuous plasterwork triglyph frieze and are divided into
bays (4 x 3) by unfluted Doric pilasters on high bases.

Listing NGR: SD2854778330

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560242

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)