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Latitude: 53.3918 / 53°23'30"N
Longitude: -3.0163 / 3°0'58"W
OS Eastings: 332509
OS Northings: 388812
OS Grid: SJ325888
Mapcode National: GBR 7YC6.SV
Mapcode Global: WH87D.M0VL
Plus Code: 9C5R9XRM+PF
Entry Name: Old Hsbc Bank Building
Listing Date: 28 March 1974
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282618
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389222
ID on this website: 101282618
Location: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ the King
Church of England Diocese: Chester
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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/12/2014
SJ3288NE
789-1/14/84
BIRKENHEAD
HAMILTON STREET (West side)
Nos. 52 AND 54
Old HSBC Bank Building
(Formerly listed as Midland Bank)
28/03/74
GV
II*
Former bank. c1880. By J.P. Seddon for the North and South Wales Bank. Coursed and squared red standstone with scalloped green Westmorland slate roof with ridge cresting. Gothic style. 2 storeys, advanced gable to left, then main 2-window range. Entrances each side, that to right in projecting porch with parapet over arched door with engaged shafts and foliate capitals to double carved doors with trefoil and quatrefoil decoration over. Left hand door in stressed gable carried on corbels. Windows of 2- and 6-lights divided by single and paired shafts. Ball-flower string course. Main range with 5-light window to ground with detached shafts with foliated capitals, and two 4-light windows above similarly treated. Billet moulding over windows. Dormer window in roof. Corbel table to eaves continues round main gable and gable of dormer.Axial and gable end stacks, each with four castellated shafts, abut the adjacent property (ref. 14/83). An imaginative and well detailed design.
Listing NGR: SJ3250988812
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