National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Bank. 7 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-ashlar-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Mardol Head, Shrewsbury, SY1 1HE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 490 125
- Coordinates
- 52.70778, -2.75484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a bank building located in Shrewsbury, dated 1926. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and is designed in the Neo-Renaissance style. The ground floor features rusticated ashlar and an arcade of three arches with stone voussoirs and leaded radial glazing in the windows. There is a central doorway adorned with an ornate cast-iron fanlight, and carved panels flank the ground-floor windows, each displaying a cartouche with a monogram and the date. The first-floor windows have moulded stone architraves and balustraded aprons, with the central window featuring an enriched pediment that also includes the date. Above, there is a foliate cornice with central swags. The upper windows have moulded architraves and decorated keystones. The building has a hipped roof that is recessed behind a parapet, and there is a single-storey continuation of the banking floor at the rear.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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