National Westminster Bank

This is a bank, built between 1910 and 1912 by Cheston and Perkins for the London County and Westminster Bank. It was constructed by Saint and Son. The building is of English bond red brick with a gable-ended roof hidden behind a rendered parapet. Brick stacks are situated at the gable ends, topped with moulded stone caps.

The building is in a Queen Anne-Neo Georgian style and is three storeys high, with a four-bay front. It features moulded brick bands and a moulded brick dentil cornice with a rendered fascia to the parapet. The base is of rusticated brick, with rubbed brick window arches and moulded stone cills. The first and second floors have 12-pane sash windows with original louvred shutters, with the first-floor windows being taller. The ground floor has three large 18-pane sashes, the bottom three panes of which have been combined into one.

The main entrance is on the right, featuring a large semi-circular coved canopy supported by console brackets and panelled pilasters, with fielded panel double doors and a rectangular overlight. A narrower doorway on the left, leading to accommodation for a resident clerk above, has a rubbed brick round arch above an entablature which cuts across the base of the arch. A moulded six-fielded panel door is situated underneath, finishing with an overlight. The interior has not been inspected.

The bank was initially built as a London County and Westminster Bank in 1910, following the bank's acquisition of the London and Country Bank, which had been operating in St Ives since 1844.