Deansgate Conservation Area - Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

Fig.13: Bradshawgate in the 1960s (Bolton
Archives)
24 Deansgate, National Westminster Bank.
This bank was built in 1852 in an Italian palazzo style, to designs by George
Woodhouse, and extended in 1907. It is three storeys high faced in fine ashlar stone,
with a brick banking hall to the rear. The first floor is arcaded with Corinthian pilasters
supporting an entablature with a modillion cornice and the round arched windows have
moulded keystones and rosettes in the freize above. There is a balustraded parapet
incorporating urns and a central segmental pediment surmounted by a coat of arms with
flanking figures.
79-81 (odd) Deansgate. Whitakers Department Store.
This store designed by the architect George Crowther was opened in November 1907. It
is two storeys high with attics and pitched plain tile roofs. The external timber frame used
timber salvaged from demolished buildings on Bradshawgate. A corner tower with a
conical roof is flanked by two storey bays and paired three storey gables, jettied out to
the second storey.
Group of four K6 telephone kiosks in front of the Post Office, Deansgate.
Designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott this group of four K6 type telephone kiosks
are made of cast iron and have shallow domed roofs.
Royal Bank of Scotland, Deansgate.
This prominent bank was built in 1875 to the design of the architects Cunliffe and
Freeman, in a Renaissance style. It is constructed of stone with a slate roof and is three
storeys high with a projecting section to the right surmounted by a tower. There are
arcaded round arched windows to the first floor with polished granite shafts and
balustrading forming a shallow balcony to the corner of Market Street. The main
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