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SE 5703 SE
7/42

TOWN OF DONCASTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 16

Including 1 SCOT LANE

(Formerly listed as The Yorkshire Bank, No 16)

GV
II

Bank. 1841 by William Hurst with addition of 1906. Ashlar, tooled and with horizontal rustication to ground floor. Roof hidden. Original part of three storeys; set on corner site with Scot Lane, three bays to High Street, curved corner bay and single bay to Scot Lane. Two storey, seven bay 1906 addition to Scot Lane. Plinth.

Entrance to corner bay, double panelled doors below plain fanlight in semi-circular headed doorcase with radiating voussoirs, moulded keystone and impost band. Four similar openings with plate-glass windows above panelled aprons to High Street and two similar to Scot Lane. Entablature with roll-moulded stringcourse clasped by the keystones, plain frieze and moulded cornice. First floor balcony on elaborate stone brackets to three corner bays with square corniced piers and ironwork panels. To first and second floors these three bays are articulated by paired giant Tuscan pilasters on deep common plinths.

First floor: over the entrance is a full length curved plate-glass sash in eared architrave below dentilled segmental broken pediment on carved consoles. Similar windows to either side in similar surrounds except with dentilled cornices. Two similar windows to these to left (High Street). Above five unequally hung plate-glass sashes in eared and shouldered architraves on bracketed sills. Eaves band, large corniced console brackets supporting moulded cornice and blocking course. Cornice and blocking course projects over the pilasters. 1906 addition to Scot Lane has similar ground floor to original section except to bay four which has semi-circular window in vermiculated surround with dated keystone, set in pilastered surround with vermiculated banding to pilasters, foliage frieze and bracketed cornice.

Above two left-hand bays are recessed; five advanced bays to right are flanked by paired Ionic-style pilasters with shield and swag decoration to heads. Seven unequally hung plate-glass sashes in shouldered architraves with decorated pulvinated friezes and cornices, above projecting corniced aprons, that to bay five set in rusticated stonework below shell head within open segmental pedimented surround on Ionic style columns with segmental balustraded balcony to front. Plain parapets over.

Originally built for the Doncaster Savings Bank, one of the earliest banks in the country.

Listing NGR: SE5753003311

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601321

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