National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. Bank. 1 related planning application.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- calm-spire-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Town Hall Square
- OS grid reference
- SD 732 322
- Coordinates
- 53.78586, -2.40775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, built around 1900, was originally a branch of the Manchester and County Bank. It features ashlar stonework, a slate roof, and a copper-clad dome, designed in a free Jacobean style. The building has two facades that meet at a chamfered corner, topped by an octagonal turret with 2-light stone mullion windows and corner colonnettes supporting the copper dome.
Both facades include a dentilled string course and a cornice adorned with egg-and-dart decoration, culminating in a gabled attic with finials and a mullioned window. Each facade also boasts a multiple light transomed first-floor window flanked by Ionic pilasters, with cornices above these and other double-tiered windows, as well as low attic dormers. The Queen Street facade features a doorway with a decorated surround, an oval fanlight, and a corniced canopy supported by large moulded consoles, while the other facade has mullion and transom windows.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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