The National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1993. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
The National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- stark-hinge-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The National Westminster Bank, 381, Bradford Road, WF17 5XT
- OS grid reference
- SE 246 239
- Coordinates
- 53.71169, -1.62741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a bank and former manager's house built around 1905 in the Renaissance style. It features ashlar stone with ashlar dressings and slate hipped roofs, topped with three tall wall stacks. The building has a plinth and a deeply dentilated cornice, with a continuous impost band on the ground floor.
The main facade has four windows with a recessed center. The ground floor showcases a large round-headed window with three lights and glazing bars, flanked by single round-headed openings. To the right, there is a casement window, and to the left, a pair of panel doors with a plain fanlight above, leading to glazed double doors. Above this, there are two central glazing bar sashes, flanked by single French windows that have glazing bar overlights and ashlar balconies with wrought iron balustrades. All these openings are adorned with tall keystones.
The side facade features another large round-headed window, with a blind window above it, flanked by single glazing bar sashes, which also have tall keystones. To the right, the former manager's house has three small windows and a doorway with a moulded ashlar surround, above which are a single and a three-light casement window. Inside, the banking hall retains its original panelling.
Local climate
The National Westminster Bank 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 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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