Listed Building: 38 AND 40, MARKET PLACE (1334838)

'PARISH OF LONG EATON MARKET PLACE SK 43 SE 4/34 (East Side) 31.3.77 Nos 38 & No 40 II (formerly listed as York Chambers) Bank and offices, now shop and cafe with offices above. No 40 built for Midland Counties District Bank. 1901 and 1903 with 1960s alterations. Architects, Gorman and Ross. Art Nouveau style. Painted, rendered and pebbledashed brick with gauged brick and stone dressings, also applied timber studding and tilework to first and second floors of No 40. Plain tile roofs with brick side wall stacks, that to No 40 half hipped with wide overhanging, bargeboarded eaves, and that to No 38, York Chambers, hidden by a horseshoe-shaped coved stone pediment. No 40 has three storeys and four bays, and No 38 has two storeys and a single bay. No 38 has a large c1960s glass shop front to ground floor except for the door to the offices above, situated to north. This has the original panelled doors, with a plain overlight inscribed in gold lettering 'York Chambers'. Above, the first floor has a large central oriel window on stone brackets, with dentilled cornice and central mullion. The windows are sashes with a segmental headed plate glass lower sash and that above with grid-like small pane glazing. To either side there are gauged brick turrets with hemispherical tops, dentilled near the top with bands of glazed terracotta blocks and with tall narrow windows to front, also with glazed terracotta blocks for imposts and sills. The pediment above is pebbledashed. Attached to north is No 40 which has the original ground floor with a large 3-light window to north and doorcase to south. The window has a moulded segmental head, with a huge mannered double keystone, which dies into rounded jambs. The fenestration with a curved transome is also original. The doorcase has a roll moulded head also with large keystone, but 1970s doors. Above, is a small wavy grilled opening set in a type of cartouche. Above, across the first floor and half way up the second floor is a segmental headed panel of applied timber studding with ornamental brick nogging. The base has a frieze of carved timber panels instead of the brick nogging. Set within this timber studding are four semi-circular oriel windows with grid-like glazing and moulded cornices. Above this there are four glazing bar casements set in wide timber surrounds with cambered heads and arched bases. Above the windows is a panel of coloured tilework with segmental top. Interior of No 38 still has the original deep cornicing and boldly corniced doorcases. Listing NGR: SK4911933747.'