Bank House National Westminster Bank And Attached Offices

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.