Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
11969
Building Number
16  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/03/1992  
Date of Amendment
12/03/1992  
Name of Property
Barclay's Bank  
Address
16 Vaughan Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llanelli  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
250681  
Northing
200468  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on street line towards northern end of street.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Circa 1870 bank building in grey rock-faced rubble stone with Bath stone dressings, slate roof and end stacks. Large 3-storey 6-window facade in mixed Italianate style. Moulded ashlar plinth, first floor band, plain second floor band and dentilled cornice on paired cym-moulded brackets between window heads. Flush sill bands. Ground floor has doors each side and 4 windows between in raised channelled surrounds arched over windows and slightly pointed to extrados with triple keystones. Windows have bracketed sills, 2 have been raised and all have modern glazing. Doorways are tall with modern doors, and plain fanlights. Doorcases have ashlar panelled spandrels above under cornice projecting from first floor band. First floor has margin glazed sashes in ashlar surrounds with segmental-arched cornices and window head cut away in similar arch but with heavy scrolled keystone. Jambs have raised blocks at base, mid-height and top. Raised sills on plain blocks. Smaller similar sashes to second floor with similar sills and jambs and chamfering back of window head but here to leave keystone flush. Window head has shallow pointed upper part reaching through base of entablature to base of dentilled cornice.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Bank is recorded on site in 1879 when it was the London and Provincial Bank, but may not have been built as such. A good example of mid Victorian bank architecture, Italianate but influenced by the bold detailing of High Victorian Gothic. Group value.  

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