National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank, originally built as the Bradford District Bank in 1873, stands on a corner site with No. 17 Cheapside. Designed by Milnes and France, the building exemplifies an ornate, free classical style with crisp carving in fine Gaisby ashlar, incorporating some late Greek Revival details reminiscent of "Greek" Thomson in Glasgow. The design emphasises the prominent corner with a small dome.

The building has five windows facing Cheapside, one facing the corner, and four windows facing Market Street. It features a deeply battered plinth with horizontal grooving. The ground floor is treated as a broad pilastrade with glazed panels, featuring piers that rise from moulded bases with egg and dart strings to moulded caps, displaying sharply carved double scrolled leaf motifs. Fluted recessed window heads are flanked by profiled consoles. A patterned frieze sits above the pier caps, with two small ones above the broader ones framing the corner entrance. The doorway includes engaged, fluted Roman Doric columns, incised detail surrounding it, and a shallow relief block pediment with an incised name plaque above. The main entablature over the ground floor incorporates a bracket cornice.

The two upper floors are articulated by giant engaged Corinthian columns, doubled with pilasters at the corner. A large double console rises from the frieze above the sash capitals, supporting a bracket main cornice that breaks forward over them. The parapet features an arcaded balustrade articulated by shallow scroll dies with acroterions. Above the rounded corner, a pilastraded drum rises with swags decorating the frieze; the cornice has paterae crestings and a pointed, coffered lead dome. Balustraded parapet dies are paired at the corner base of the drum, surmounted by ornate vases. The first-floor windows are set in architrave surrounds, the cornices acting as the sills for the second-floor windows, which have flanking pilasters with stepped bases and incised ornament to the necks, with heads breaking into a deep main frieze. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are also present.