National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- eastward-steel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Wilmslow Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 849 931
- Coordinates
- 53.4348, -2.22735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a bank building from the late 19th century, located on Wilmslow Road in Withington, Manchester. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a rectangular, single-storey banking hall designed in the Jacobean style. The facade is symmetrical and includes a moulded plinth, a moulded sill-band, and a drip-band that steps over the windows. Decorative elements include a ball-flower and dart frieze, as well as a pierced parapet with ornamented upstands and corbelled tourelles at the corners.
The central entrance boasts a basket-arched doorway that is sheltered by an elaborate porch, which has a corbelled-out shaped-gable canopy supported by two slender marble columns with foliated capitals. The gable is further adorned with corner tourelles and an intricate cartouche that reads "Manchester and County Bank Ltd." Flanking the entrance are three large cross-windows on each side, featuring slender shafts, two large arched lights below the transom, and four smaller arched lights above. The building is topped with a hipped roof that has tall coupled cylindrical chimneys along the ridge. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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