Building Name

43 Lower Hillgate Stockport

Date
1912 - 1913
Street
49 Lower Hillgate
District/Town
Stockport
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Stockport Savings Bank
Work
New built
Status
Commercial
Listed
Grade II

 

Built for the Stockport Savings Bank in 1912-13 to replace an earlier bank in the same location,which had been demolished in 1911. The Stockport Savings Bank had been founded in 1824 in Turner's Buildings, Little Underbank, before moving to Lower Hillgate. This bank, opened in 1913 and later became a branch of Lloyds TSB, before closing in the 1980s. The building was constructed in Portland limestone, brick, granite, Welsh slate roof, stone stacks.