National Westminster Bank Including Attached Offices

The National Westminster Bank, including attached offices, is a bank and office building dated 1908, designed by J.C. Prestwick. It is constructed from ashlar Portland limestone and features a slate roof. The building has three storeys with attics and a symmetrical facade consisting of three main bays, with one corner entrance and an extension of four bays along Market Street.

The plinth of the building is prominent, and the corner bay is channel rusticated, featuring panelled double doors set within an architrave that has a carved keystone and a segmental pediment above. The first floor has a tall window in a panel with an apron, a moulded sill, and an architrave topped by a frieze block, over which the cornice projects forward. The second floor includes an oculus framed by a festoon of fruit and an arched cornice.

The three bays flanking the corner on each frontage have channel-rusticated piers and apron panels beneath original casements with arched transoms, although bay three on Railway Road has been altered. The first-floor casements are transomed and set within architraves that feature double keystones and open segmental pediments. The second-floor windows are shorter, with moulded sills and architraves.

An entablature with a pulvinated frieze and a modillioned cornice breaks forward over the corner, beneath a coped ashlar parapet decorated with lion's heads and a block with a wreath. There is a corniced ashlar ridge stack. The projecting and channel-rusticated link on the Market Street facade has a blocked round-arched doorway beneath a panel containing architraved windows, with a cartouche featuring swags and the date '1908' positioned between the first and second floors. The second-floor window has a keystone and segmental pediment above it, and the parapet mirrors that of the corner.

The remaining four bays include a door to the right and are generally similar to the rest of the building, except that the first-floor windows have plain cornices. The lower roof lacks a parapet but features two dormer windows, with gable copings and a corniced end stack to the right, matching the ridge stack.