NHER 34291 (Building record) - Bank Chambers, 23 Tuesday Market Place

1951. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt (updated 1993):
"Offices. Late 17th century, reworked mid 18th century, façade early 19th century. Brick with ashlar façade, plain tiled roof. Double-pile plan. Three storeys in five bays. Central 20th-century door with Tuscan engaged columns right and left. All windows are 20th-century sashes, those to ground floor are separated by Doric pilasters. Above them is a continuous metope frieze and, over door, a pediment. Windows above with shouldered and eared architraves, those to first floor with hoods and projecting sills. Balustraded parapet. Two parallel hipped roofs, the rear one with 20th-century plaintiles.
INTERIOR. In rear pile is a large-framed 18th-century stair well with an open string staircase: two turned balusters with bobbins to each tread. Ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail. Egg-and-dart cornice to well below ovolo dentils. Ground-floor rear room with a double-scrolled overmantel carrying an open pediment. On first-floor landing pedimented doorways with shouldered architraves open to right and left via panelled doors. More modest staircase continues to second floor but still within large-framed panelled stairwell. First-floor south room with late 17th-century small-framed panelling and a chimneypiece with fluted pilasters. Principal first-floor room (to north) with mid-18th-century large-framed panelling. Roofs of clasped purlins, collars and rafters."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the full current Listing Description (which was expanded considerably in 2018).
E. Rose (NLA), 11 March 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

For a more detailed account of the building before alterations, see (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 February 2004.