National Westminster Bank and Heritage Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1965. Bank, heritage centre. 9 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank and Heritage Centre
- WRENN ID
- buried-iron-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough MP: Justin Madders (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1965
- Type
- Bank, heritage centre
- Address
- National Westminster Bank and Heritage Centre, 93-94, Greendale Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 337 840
- Coordinates
- 53.34904, -2.9969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank and Heritage Centre, located at Nos. 93 to 94 and Nos. 95 and 96 on Greendale Road in Port Sunlight, is a building originally constructed as four hostels for girls in 1896 by the architectural firm Maxwell and Tuke. The structure is made of brick and features a timber-framed canopy on the ground floor.
The first floor showcases a pargetted frieze with strapwork and decorative timbering, highlighted by jettied gables. The ground floor is adorned with sashed windows that include glazing bars, three-light canted bay windows, and elliptical-headed windows, which were originally entrances; only one remains as an entrance to the second bay, featuring a plank door. The first floor contains three small-paned casements, each with two lights per bay. There is an inserted cash-point in the bay window of the first bay.
The building has a cross-axial and gable-end stack, and the returns feature bow windows, with the right return having an inserted entrance. The stacks project with flanking half-canted oriels. The rear of the building includes large projections with rear blocks, one on the left with a hipped roof and the other on the right dating from the mid-20th century.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank and Heritage Centre 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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