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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 4719 & SK 4819 BULL RING 8/99 & 9/99 (east side)
No 3 (National Westminster Bank)
II
Bank and manager's house (now incorporated into working area), dated inside 1904, by A E King of Loughborough. Brick and terracotta, hipped plain tile roof, decorative ridge tiles. Two elaborately moulded stacks on front face of roof. Eclectic, and extravagantly decorated. Two-storeys, 5 window range, 1-3-1. Side projections, right-hand one, incorporating high enriched bank entrance, beneath octagonal turret with lead capped roof, and miniature lantern and spire. Central block: ground floor windows with central mullions and keystones. Entrance to manager's house in left-hand part of building now replaced by window. 1st floor, cross windows between enriched Ionic columns. Frieze above, with putti representing the 4 seasons. Ceramic tiled entrance. Interior: coved ceiling with very elaborate plasterwork design of dancers, birds and flowers, with 3-D figures of Mercury at the corners, carried on scagliola columns. Teak counter with "Ionic" columns, (and) panelled dado. "Baroque" doorcases and panelled doors in part which. was the manager's house. Built for the Nottingham and Notts Banking Company. N Pevsner, Leicestershire & Rutland.
Listing NGR: SK4800319576
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