The National Westminster Bank

1. 5111 HUSTLERGATE BD1

No 7 SE 1633 SW 36/685 (The National Westminster Bank)

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1. Includes No 24 Bank Street and Nos 8 and 10 Piece Hall Yard. Important corner site with fronts to Bank Street and Piece Hall Yard. Built as the Bradford Commercial Bank and completed to the designs of Andrews and Pepper in 1868. Elaborate Gothic with mid C13 detail, complementing the Wool Exchange. Two-storeys and attics, millstone grit ashlar with sandstone and polished granite dressings. The corner is emphasised by a square 3-storey tower with a pierced, pinnacled, parapet and surmounted by a steep truncated slate roof with large lucarne dormers and wrought iron cresting. The windows and doors have pink or grey granite shaft colonettes, the foliate capital mouldings continued as impost bands. Drip moulds on head stops. The first floor windows are of 2-lights with quatrefoils piercing the tympani. The first floor windows on the corner tower have applied crocketed gables and give onto pierced stone balconies. Above the first floor is a corbelled pierced stone parapet with sharply gabled dormers set behind. The banking hall has a corbelled vaulted ceiling divided into panels decorated with Coats of Arms.

Listing NGR: SE1637533155