National Westminster Bank

SD 82 SW 6/154

RAWTENSTALL, BANK STREET National Westminster Bank

II

Bank, c.1880 Ashlar, hipped slate roof with ridge chimneys. L-shaped plan, on corner site. Two storeys, with corner turret, in Renaissance style: channelled rustication to ground floor, moulded and carved cornice; at right end of Bank Street facade a round-headed porch with dentilled cornice, a triple window of round-headed sashes at 1st floor above, rectangular tripartite window on each floor at the left end and a rectangular window next to the door. Corbelled and on brackets at the left corner is a cylindrical 2-stage turret rising from 1st floor level, with narrow curved sashes at 1st floor, a panelled band and carved frieze, a belvedere of very narrow windows between shafts with carved capitals, a console cornice, and a lead-clad ogival domed roof with a finial. Left return wall is longer, a wide centre bay slightly set back and containing 4 rectangular windows at ground floor and a row of 6 round-headed sashes above, the flanking bays with tripartite sashed windows, the upper having projecting sills and cornices on consoles (that at ground floor left part altered).

Listing NGR: SD8122522901