The National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank, located at 7 Hustlergate, includes No 24 Bank Street and Nos 8 and 10 Piece Hall Yard. This important corner site was originally built as the Bradford Commercial Bank, designed by Andrews and Pepper and completed in 1868. The building features elaborate Gothic architecture with mid-13th century details, complementing the nearby Wool Exchange. It is two storeys high with attics, constructed from millstone grit ashlar with sandstone and polished granite dressings.

The corner of the building is highlighted by a square three-storey tower, which has a pierced, pinnacled parapet and is topped with a steep truncated slate roof that includes large lucarne dormers and wrought iron cresting. The windows and doors are adorned with pink or grey granite shaft colonettes, with foliate capital mouldings that extend into impost bands. Drip moulds are present on the head stops. The first floor features two-light windows with quatrefoils piercing the tympani, while the corner tower's first floor windows have applied crocketed gables and open onto pierced stone balconies. Above the first floor, there is a corbelled pierced stone parapet with sharply gabled dormers set behind. Inside, the banking hall boasts a corbelled vaulted ceiling divided into panels, each decorated with Coats of Arms.