National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. Bank. 1 related planning application.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- strange-nave-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 3, Bull Ring, Shepshed, LE12 9PZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 480 195
- Coordinates
- 52.77167, -1.28991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, originally built for the Nottingham and Notts Banking Company, is a bank and manager's house dated 1904, designed by A E King of Loughborough. The building features a brick and terracotta construction with a hipped plain tile roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles and two elaborately moulded stacks on the front face. It is an eclectic and extravagantly decorated two-storey structure with a five-window range arranged in a 1-3-1 pattern.
The right-hand side of the building has a high, enriched bank entrance beneath an octagonal turret topped with a lead-capped roof, a miniature lantern, and a spire. The central block has ground floor windows with central mullions and keystones, while the entrance to the manager's house, located in the left part of the building, has been replaced by a window. On the first floor, cross windows are set between enriched Ionic columns, and there is a frieze above featuring putti representing the four seasons. The entrance is ceramic tiled.
Inside, the bank boasts a coved ceiling with elaborate plasterwork designs depicting dancers, birds, and flowers, with three-dimensional figures of Mercury at the corners, supported by scagliola columns. There is a teak counter with Ionic columns and a panelled dado, as well as Baroque doorcases and panelled doors in the area that was once the manager's house.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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