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BOSTON TF3244SE MARKET PLACE 716-1/7/116 (North side) 14/02/75 No.52 Barclays Bank GV II Bank. 1876 Designed by Lockwood and Mawson of Bradford in a late Gothic style. Ashlar front, Gault brick with ashlar dressings to side. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: front of 3 storeys has full height canted end, with moulded plinth, double string courses to each floor, cornice with carved florets, parapet with pierced quatrefoils containing shields. To the right a panelled entrance door with overlight with carved stone glazing bars in ogee pattern, set in slightly advanced bay with shouldered arch. To left 2 plain sashes with shaped shouldered heads and narrow colonnettes. Above 3 stone hoods on carved brackets beneath panels with 3 pierced quatrefoils. To 1st and 2nd floor are 3 cross-mullioned windows to each side of bay. To the left a further bay set back, with single similar windows to side and front, to each floor. Return has 2 gables, with mullioned windows and 2-storey canted bay windows. In the gables a shield in a quatrefoil in a recessed panel. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: formerly the Stamford and Spalding Banking Co premises, founded in Stamford in early 1830s and first Boston branch in 1835. Listing NGR: TF3275344196

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