Building Name

Union Bank, London Road Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Date
1902
Street
London Road
District/Town
Alderley Edge, Cheshire
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Union Bank of Manchester
Work
New Build
Listed
Grade II

LISTING TEXT - Bank: dated 1904 by Percy Worthington for the Union Bank. Partly ashlar buff sandstone, partly red brick. Stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Jacobean style. 3-storey symmetrical 3-bay front. End bays have curving bay windows with 5-light mullioned and transomed windows on the first 2 storeys and a 4-light mullioned and transomed windows in stone coped and ornately finialled gables. Central semi-circular headed ovolo-moulded doorcase with company arms and motto under pediment above. Just below eaves is date and decorative lead guttering. On corner of West Street is carved stone bracket supporting clock. West Street front is of 3 storeys with a triple stuccoed gable each containing a bowed oriel with some blue and cream terracotta work. Mullioned and transomed windows on ground storey and mullioned windows on 1st. Interior: original banking hall now removed. The upper floor was originally designed to be the manager's flat.

Reference    RIBA Journal 14 August 1939 page 950-952