National Westminster Bank

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SK0394 NORFOLK SQUARE 921-1/10/18 (North side) 27/01/78 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET WEST (North side) National Westminster Bank)

GV II

Includes: National Westminster Bank HIGH STREET WEST. Bank. 1897 with additions 1910. Ashlar with ashlar dressings to principal elevations, coursed millstone grit elsewhere. Westmorland slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. STYLE: Elizabethan Revival. PLAN: L-plan with entrance to left of main range, banking hall to right. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys, single storey to rear. Chamfered plinth, first-floor panel frieze and sill band, second floor band. High Street front, has 3 windows arranged 1:2. All windows have mullions and transoms. 3 storey entrance bay to left has shaped gable with lion finial and datestone. Doorway to left has double panel doors, and 2-light window to right both under round-headed arches with mullion fanlights. Above canted 4-light oriel window on corbelled base, and above again 5-light window with hoodmould. Banking hall to left has 2 segment headed 4-light windows with hoodmoulds and carved stops, above two 3-light windows, with shaft between topped by rampant lion and shield on crenellated parapet. Left return has irregular 3 window front with crenellated parapet. Segment headed 4-light window to right with hoodmould and carved stops flanked by 2-light windows. To left round headed 2-light window with carved transom and mullion fanlight. Above single 2-light window and two 3-light windows, 1910 extension contains stair marked externally by staggered 3-light windows. Detailing similar to front elevation. Right return has 3 segment headed 4-light windows, and above a single 2-light window. INTERIOR: has ornate plasterwork to banking hall.

Listing NGR: SK0345394091