National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank, built around 1890, is a bank located on Yorkshire Street in Oldham. The building features an ashlar facade, with a rusticated ground floor and a roof that is not visible behind the parapet. It has two storeys, displaying a four-window range on the Yorkshire Street side and a five-window return on Greaves Street. The design is in the Neo-classical style, featuring outer entrances on the Yorkshire Street elevation, each with a panelled door and a round-arched fanlight. Between these entrances are round-arched windows, and the upper windows are alternately triangular and segmentally pedimented, with balustrading beneath each one. The building is accented with angle quoins, a cornice, and a blocking course that includes stressed central panels. There are end wall stacks. The original interior banking hall remains intact, showcasing Ionic columns that support a square panelled plaster ceiling.