National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.

National Westminster Bank

WRENN ID
spare-lime-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell MP: Simon Lightwood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 February 1979
Type
Commercial building
Address
National Westminster Bank, 56, Westgate
OS grid reference
SE 330 207
Coordinates
53.68253, -1.50071
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The National Westminster Bank is a later 19th-century commercial building located on the north side of Westgate. It is three stories tall and features four bays, constructed of ashlar stone. The building has a prominent top entablature with a modillion cornice and a parapet. The architrave at the top is continuous with the architrave of the second-floor windows, which also include a cill band supported by triglyph brackets. The first-floor windows are adorned with an architrave, frieze, and a dentil cornice. The ground floor has been renewed in modern grey granite.

Local climate

National Westminster Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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