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

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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mullions and keystones, while the entrance to the manager's house, located in the left part of the building, has been replaced by a window.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.

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