Bank House National Westminster Bank and Attached Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1973. Bank. 2 related planning applications.

Bank House National Westminster Bank and Attached Offices

WRENN ID
broken-plaster-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sheffield
Constituency
Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1973
Type
Bank
Address
Bank House National Westminster Bank and Attached Offices, 20, Church Street, S1 2GN
OS grid reference
SK 353 874
Coordinates
53.38265, -1.47068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bank House, which houses the National Westminster Bank and attached offices, was built around 1880 and has undergone partial demolition in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, while the left side and rear are mainly rendered. It features slate and felted roofs with large clustered coped side wall and ridge stacks, as well as a smaller ridge stack. Designed in the Tudor Revival style, it has a stone plinth, a moulded sill band, string courses, and a moulded crenellated parapet.

The structure is four storeys high and has a three-window range. The windows are primarily cross casements with moulded stone surrounds and mullions. A central canted three-storey oriel window is topped with its own blind arcaded crenellated parapet and is set under a shouldered square gable with a Tudor arched opening. On the first floor, there is a canopied niche with a figure, flanked by single light windows, and beyond that, on each side, a five-light window. The upper levels feature similar fenestration, with a central two-light cross casement and a framed relief panel above it, and a central two-light mullioned window flanked by single three-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds.

The ground floor includes a moulded four-centred arched doorway with panelled double doors and a fanlight, topped by a nodding ogee gable. On either side of the doorway, there is a four-light window. The canted left corner features a canted stone three-light oriel window on the first floor, adorned with an elaborate traceried crest, and above it is a sundial. Below, there is a plain three-light window. The rebuilt left return has mainly late 20th-century fenestration, while to the right, there is a plain canted stone oriel window on the first floor. The partly demolished rear elevation has a central recess with two superimposed three-light windows, flanked to the left by three two-light windows on the first and second floors. The ground floor features a central Tudor arched stone doorcase, flanked to the left by a large six-light window and to the right by two small windows and a two-light casement.

Local climate

Bank House National Westminster Bank and Attached Offices receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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