Former National Westminster Bank on Corner at Junction with Spring Gardens is a Grade II* listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1972. Bank. 12 related planning applications.
Former National Westminster Bank on Corner at Junction with Spring Gardens
- WRENN ID
- small-portal-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1972
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Former National Westminster Bank on Corner at Junction with Spring Gardens, 1 and 3, York Street, M2 2AW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 840 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48117, -2.2413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a bank, built in 1902 by Charles Heathcote for Parr’s Bank. It is located on the corner of York Street and Spring Gardens in Manchester, with a splayed corner facing Spring Gardens. The building is constructed of red sandstone on a grey granite plinth, with a slate roof. It is a significant example of Edwardian Baroque architecture.
The building has three unequal storeys and an attic, with a 1:5:1 bay arrangement along York Street, including the corner. The ground floor is notably taller than the floors above. The ground floor features banded rectangular piers supporting coupled Doric columns with a shaped entablature. Each bay is filled with a large round-headed window featuring moulded detail, a scrolled keystone, plate-glass glazing, and enriched bronze metalwork, including stained glass in the lower panels and arched margin panes above. The first floor has 3-light mullioned windows with eared architraves and triple keystones, surmounted by a prominent enriched cornice with modillions. The second floor features arcaded segmental-arched windows with festoons between each group of three. The attic has 3-light dormer windows with shouldered architraves and segmental pediments.
A distinctive feature is the right-hand end bay, which is four-storeyed with a projecting design, a curved pediment, and a doorway with an elaborate Baroque architrave. Above this is a two-storey canted oriel with small windows in heavy surrounds, and a round-headed window on the third floor, all with richly decorated surrounds.
The corner has octagonal piers framing a large round-headed doorway, followed by windows with Gibbs surrounds, an elegant balcony with Art Nouveau railings, and a cylindrical turret with Ionic aedicules, a modillioned cornice, and a domed lead roof with a lantern. The return side to Spring Gardens mirrors the York Street facade.
The interior features an imposing and richly decorated banking hall. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are present.
Local climate
Former National Westminster Bank on Corner at Junction with Spring Gardens sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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