National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. A C19 Bank. 7 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- quartered-floor-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Bank Street, BB4 8TS
- OS grid reference
- SD 812 229
- Coordinates
- 53.70222, -2.28587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, built around 1880, is an L-shaped bank located on a corner site in Rawtenstall on Bank Street. It is designed in the Renaissance style and constructed of ashlar with a hipped slate roof featuring ridge chimneys. The building has two storeys and includes a corner turret.
The ground floor showcases channelled rustication and a moulded and carved cornice. On the right side of the Bank Street facade, there is a round-headed porch with a dentilled cornice. Above this porch, a triple window of round-headed sashes is situated on the first floor. At the left end, there is a rectangular tripartite window on each floor, along with a rectangular window next to the door.
The cylindrical turret, which is corbelled and supported on brackets at the left corner, rises from the first floor. It features narrow curved sashes at the first floor, a panelled band, and a carved frieze. The turret culminates in a belvedere with very narrow windows between shafts adorned with carved capitals, a console cornice, and a lead-clad ogival domed roof topped with a finial.
The left return wall of the building is longer, with a wide central bay that is slightly set back. This bay contains four rectangular windows at the ground floor and a row of six round-headed sashes above. The flanking bays feature tripartite sashed windows, with the upper windows having projecting sills and cornices on consoles. It should be noted that the left ground floor window has been altered.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Related listed building consents — 7 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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