National Westminster Bank

WISBECH CORN HILL TF 4509 6/37 5/37 No. 1 (National Westminster Bank) GV II Bank, built in 1853. Architect, John Gibson (b.1817, d.1892). Formerly the National Provincial Bank. Yellow gault brick with stone dressings and rusticated first floor. Slate roof. Three storeys with attics; three symmetrical bays. Parapet to roof balcony with stone copings, quoins surmounted by ball finials. Deep stone modillioned cornice, cill band at second floor and plain stone plinth. Three second floor, six-paned hung sash windows; three first floor windows, twelve-paned hung sashes in eared architraves with pulvinated friezes and deep cornices. Pierced stone balcony across three bays. Two ground floor hung sash windows with rusticated architraves flank central Roman Doric doorcase with double doors and round-headed fanlight with glazing bars. Dixon, Mulhesius, Victorian Architecture, Thames and Hudson, p.258, 1978. Pevsner, Buildings in Englands, p.500. S. Smith (b.1802, d.1892), photographic collection, W. & F. Mus.

Listing NGR: TF4600509692