National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Bank. 8 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- tall-spandrel-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1965
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 26, Mosley Street, NE1 1DF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 250 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97063, -1.6106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at No. 26 Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, was built between 1870 and 1872 by architect Gibson for the National Provincial Bank. This bank features a vermiculate sandstone basement and a sandstone ashlar façade with pink granite nook shafts around the ground floor openings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. Designed in the Palladian style, it is a corner building with three storeys and five bays, plus an entrance bay that is set back to the right.
The rusticated ground floor includes a central door with an overlight set within a pedimented doorcase. In the entrance bay, there are doors framed in a lugged architrave with the words "BANK CHAMBERS" incised above. The ground floor also has round-headed fixed lights adorned with archivolts, imposts, and sill strings, along with a panelled band beneath. The first-floor windows are framed by pedimented Ionic aedicules, while the second-floor windows are set within giant Roman Doric architraves.
On the frieze facing Mosley Street, the inscription reads "NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND MDCCLXXI," and on the left return facing Dean Street, it states "THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMD ESTABLISHED MDCCXXXIII." The building is topped with a high blocking course and features tall, corniced ashlar chimneys. The rear of the building is adjacent to No. 10 St. Nicholas Churchyard.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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