National Westminster Bank is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Bank. 8 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- quartered-pedestal-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 20-26, Castle Street, L2 0NR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 904
- Coordinates
- 53.4064, -2.9913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a bank building constructed between 1899 and 1902, designed by Norman Shaw. It features a striking exterior made of granite in alternating stripes of yellow and grey, complemented by terracotta window dressings and a slate roof. The building has four main storeys, a mezzanine, and attics, arranged in five bays. The large entrance is round-arched, banded, and rusticated, topped with a cornice. The upper floors are adorned with small-paned windows set in moulded terracotta architraves, featuring cornices on the first floor and keystones on the top floor. A richly detailed cornice crowns the building, embellished with dentils, egg and dart motifs, and modillions. The roof is punctuated by two storeys of dormers, the lower ones featuring segmental pediments, along with large gable stacks and a central axial stack. Inside, the bank boasts a fine circular space with a central round lantern, radiating coffered and carved panels decorated with painted swags of fruits, a rich frieze and cornice, and eight triple pilasters striped with green marble, along with oval medallions.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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