The National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
The National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pewter-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- The National Westminster Bank, 25, High Row
- OS grid reference
- NZ 288 145
- Coordinates
- 54.5252, -1.55568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a dignified classical Victorian commercial building dating from the 19th century. It features a three-storey facade with three windows, constructed from ponderous ashlar stone. The facade has raised quoins and cill strings, with the second floor displaying dentilled detailing and brackets beneath the cills. At the top, there is an entablature with a guilloche moulded frieze and a cornice that is both modillioned and dentilled. The windows are set within moulded architraves, with the second-floor windows having ears and keystones, while the first-floor windows are adorned with enriched cornices. The rusticated ground floor creates voussoirs for round arched openings, which feature masks of kings on the keystones, all situated within round arched recesses. The entrance includes a six-panel door flanked by respond pilasters, a frieze, and a dentilled cornice head beneath a fanlight.
Local climate
The National Westminster Bank receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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