Former Mercantile Bank of Lancashire Manchester, England
Listed Building Data
Former Mercantile Bank of Lancashire has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1200800
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 9 August 1988
- Name
- FORMER MERCANTILE BANK OF LANCASHIRE
- Location
- FORMER MERCANTILE BANK OF LANCASHIRE, LAPWING LANE
- District
- Manchester
- Grid Reference
- SJ 84145 92303
- Easting
- 384145.0000
- Northing
- 392303.0000
Listed Building Description
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MANCHESTER
SJ89SW LAPWING LANE, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/502 (South side) 09/08/88 Former Mercantile Bank of Lancashire (Formerly Listed as: LAPWING LANE, West Didsbury (South side) Former Mercantile Bank of Lancashire (Barclays Bank))
II
Former Bank. Dated 1903; designed by Joseph Swarbrick. Finely-pointed red brick with red and yellow terracotta detailing; hipped 2-span red tiled roof with crested ridge tiles. L-shaped plan, the longer range containing the former banking hall and general office, and the smaller range (to the left) the former manager's office. Single storey, 2+2 bays to Lapwing Lane and 3 bays to Cresswell Grove; with corner pilasters, plinth, moulded sill-band to arcade of round-headed arches, yellow terracotta string-course, frieze with terracotta panel lettered "MERCANTILE BANK OF LANCASHIRE LIMITED", prominent modillioned cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment, and coped parapet. The left bay of the main range has double doors with raised panels; the other bays (boarded at time of survey) had 3-light round-headed tripartite windows (when surveyed in 1988). Right-hand corner has nicely-detailed recessed downpipe and rainwater head dated 1903. Interior (1988): mahogany doors with lugged surrounds; 2 staircases (to vaults) with turned balusters; egg-and-dart cornices; mosaic floors.
Listing NGR: SJ8414592303
