Listed Building record MDO15146 - Old Bank House, Long Street, Sherborne

A building of 16th or early 17th-century date with front and rear elevations in early 19th-century Gothic Revival style. The front of the building is covered in stucco and pebbledash with decorative features including a pierced parapet with Gothic arcading. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include moulded ceiling beams and a 17th-century staircase. The building was the premises of the Sherborne and Dorsetshire Bank, which was established in the middle of the 18th century and merged with the National Provincial in 1843.

(ST 63981655). Old Bank House (NAT). (2)

The Bank House. Built early in the C16th and has a late C17th addition on the south-west. Much reconstructed in the last century. (1)

The Old Bank House. The front and rear elevation are in early C19th Gothic-Revival style. Grade 2*. (3,4)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 220 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

ST 63981655. Old Bank House (NAT)

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 385 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Historic and Architectural Interest: West Dorset Urban District of Sherborne, 105 (Scheduling record). SDO17491.

<5> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887523 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 1:06PM