Listed Building: HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY (1281305)

'PARISH OF LONG EATON MARKET PLACE SK 43 SE 4/37 (East Side) Halifax Building Society (No 24) GV II Bank, now building society offices. 1889 by Watson Fothergill for Samuel Smith's Bank. Red brick with yellow and blue brick bands, stone and terracotta dressings and rock faced stone plinth. Slate roof with moulded stone copings to gables and ridge finials. Elaborate brick side wall stacks with triangular sectioned pilaster strips to sides and sawtoothed crowns. Two storeys plus attics and three bays. Ground floor has an inside porch to south corner with semi-circular headed stone arches to west and south sides, supported in south-west corner by a large polished granite column with foliage capital. Both arches have contemporary wrought ironwork in the tympanums and grid-like ironwork below. Above each arch is a stone dripmould with carved stops. To the north there are five adjoining, moulded Caernarvon arched windows with four polished granite columns, plus foliage capitals, supporting the centre windows. Each window has a carved frieze to the top of the head and plate glass fenestration. Below is a continuous moulded sill band and above at first floor level is a deep moulded terracotta frieze, now mostly covered by facia board. Above again there are three basket arched plain sashes with moulded brick jambs and similarly moulded stone voussoirs. To base is a moulded sill band with blue brick band over and between the windows at lintel level there are two more blue brick bands. Set across the north corner is a canted, oriel, mullioned and transomed bay window with terracotta panels to base and coloured brick corbels below. Moulded stringcourses between storeys above and two large gables with two adjoining plain sashes recessed between them to centre. Each gable has a 3-light chamfered mullion window with plain sashes and continuous moulded sill and lintel stringcourses. Two blue brick bands above in the gables. North elevation on to churchyard has a grand mullioned and transomed stair window with stepped base. Below it is a large moulded arch with door and window within. Listing NGR: SK4914833687.'