Description

HIGH ROW
1.
5195 No 27
(Barclay's Bank)
NZ 2814 NE 7/93

II* GV

2.
1864 by Sir A. Waterhouse. Grand C13 Gothic facade with Venetian touches. Three
storeys and attic, 5 windows. Ashlar with steeply pitched slated roof whose dormers
interrupt a pierced parapet above a double corbel table at eaves. Twin roof ridges
with wrought iron cresting. Four tall ridge stacks with half-octagonal ends and
enriched cornices, all of ashlar including pots. Paired 2nd floor windows have
detached granite central shafts, chevron moulded flat heads and corbels below cills.
Paired cusped lancets on 1st floor have granite engaged centre and jambshafts,
projecting bracketed cills and drip moulds with impost string. Cast iron guards
to upper windows. Ground floor large single cusped openings, elaborately chamfered
and moulded, whose paired nooke-shafts have leafy capitals. Fading buttresses
between. Drip moulds and impost string. Central door with fancy iron hinges,
much moulding, including nail-head and 3 orders of nook-shafts.

Listing NGR: NZ2884614555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544912

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)