National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank, built in 1876 by William Waddington & Son for the Manchester and County Bank, is a bank located on Grimshaw Street in Burnley. It is designed in a florid Florentine style and constructed from sandstone ashlar with a fishscale slated mansard roof. The building has a square plan situated on a corner site, featuring a splayed corner towards Nicholas Street.

The exterior consists of a single storey with a cellar and attic, displaying four bays on each facade. Notable architectural elements include a two-stage plinth, chunky fluted bands, prominent bracketed and modillioned eaves cornices, and parapets that are pierced with roundels and topped with gadrooned urns. The central and terminal features are corniced and pedimented. The corner entrance is marked by a tall round-headed archway supported by polished granite columns with composite sandstone capitals. This archway is richly decorated, featuring a helmed figured keystone and a doorway with panelled convex double doors, an overlight cresting, an enriched frieze, and a tympanum that displays a carved shield with the raised lettering "NEC TIMIDE NEC TEMERE." Each facade is adorned with arcaded round-headed windows that have fluted aprons, prominent sills on consoles, fluted imposts, enriched moulded heads with carved keystones, and roundel wreaths positioned between the window heads. The roof is decorated with tall cast-iron finials featuring animal motifs.

Inside, the bank features a square banking hall with an oak panelled dado and elaborately carved oak architraves around the internal doorways. The walls above the dado are faced with white marble, complemented by plain green marble surrounds at the windows. The ceiling is coved and coffered, showcasing plastered cruciform beams and a large roundel in each panel, although the interior has undergone some alterations. The building is internally linked to a later addition on Nicholas Street and is part of a group that includes No.9 Grimshaw Street opposite, the former Burnley Building Society at No.19 Parker Lane to the east, and the terraced townhouses on Nicholas Street to the west.