Natwest Bank

This is an early 19th century town house, built in two phases and later converted into a bank and offices. The main facade is red brick laid in Flemish bond, with stucco detailing, and has a slate roof and brick stacks. The building is oriented north-west to south-east, parallel with the High Street. It uses a double-depth plan, with the earlier, north-west section being three storeys high, and the later, south-east section being two storeys. The overall plan is roughly square, with two extensions projecting from the rear.

The building is of three storeys. The earlier section has two windows to each floor, with eight-over-eight hornless sash windows on the ground and first floors, and four-over-four sashes in the attic. The later section has windows of the same style, but with six-over-six sashes. All windows are set in plain reveals, with frame boxes flush with the brickwork, projecting cills, and stucco wedge-shaped lintels topped with a headed key-block. A moulded stucco architrave with a key-block frames a round-arched, solid, panelled doorway, above which is a small segmental over-door light. There is a thick stucco band between the ground and first floors. Chimney stacks are located at either end of the earlier section and at the south-west end of the later section.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.

Bromyard, a small market town first recorded around 840, contains this building on a principal thoroughfare known as Novus Vicus in the late 13th century, and later as Newe Streate in 1575. The street was fully built-up by the early 17th century, although some plots have subsequently been redeveloped.

The Natwest Bank is designated at Grade II for its architectural qualities as a well-preserved and attractive, well-proportioned building with restrained classical detailing, and for its intact early 19th century facade which retains its ground floor fenestration within a street largely converted to shops. The building also possesses group value when considered alongside its neighbours and other listed buildings along the High Street.