A FORMER bank in Dorset has been named among the most captivating sites in the South West listed in 2020. Historic England, a public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment and its significant buildings, has listed a number of key locations and buildings. The historical group has rounded up its most captivating sites, ranging from health centres, coastal defences, monuments and high street buildings. The organisation declared the former Natwest bank, based on Station Road in Gillingham, a listed Grade II building, among them due to its design and architecture. The former bank was built in 1900-1902 to the designs of noted Bristol architect Sir George Oatley (1863-1950) for the Stuckey Banking Company Ltd, a major West Country bank.
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The wall painting of a gargoyle discovered at 1, 3, 5 Park Street, Old Hatfield
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Sites in Hatfield and Gorhambury near St Albans have been added to Historic England s list of protected sites.
The houses in Old Hatfield, and the Pondyards, join over 400 other locations added to the National Heritage List for England during 2020, released on December 16.
Old Hatfield s 1, 3 and 5 Park Street, near the Eight Bells and the Horse and Groom, had many uses over the years. It is most likely to have started as an inn in the mid-17th century, before it became a home, followed by shops and most recently offices in the late 20th century.
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image captionSelfridges department store on Oxford Street in London is one of 423 sites to be added to Historic England s National Heritage List in 2020
A shipwreck, racehorse wash house and world-renowned department store Selfridges have been among the historic sites to have been given extra protection in 2020.
Historic England has added or upgraded 423 National Heritage List sites.
New entries have also included several bridges, churches and a memorial to a lifeboat tragedy.
Also making the list in 2020 were a Victorian railway station, post World War Two tower and Jacobean gardens.
Historic England chief executive Duncan Wilson said: Despite the challenges that the heritage sector has faced this year, 2020 has seen many brilliant additions to the list.
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Ketts Castle Villa and Garden, Norwich, Norfolk – Grade II listed
Built in 1957, the little-altered villa is believed to have been designed by, and built for, painter John Berney Ladbrooke.
He was an artist in the Norwich school of painting, a British landscape movement founded in 1803 by a small group of self-taught, working class artists based around Norwich, including his father, Robert Ladbrooke.
The school’s work included landscapes and scenes of rural life, which some commentators have described as a forerunner to both French Impressionism and also to the Newlyn School of Painting in Cornwall.
Archway leading to south entrance of Ketts Castle and Villa, in Thorpe Hamlet, which has this year been given listed status.