National Westminster Bank with Attached House,Outbuildings,Walls of Walled Garden,And Gateway on South is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Bank. 15 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank with Attached House,Outbuildings,Walls of Walled Garden,And Gateway on South
- WRENN ID
- south-cornice-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank with Attached House,Outbuildings,Walls of Walled Garden,And Gateway on South, HP23 5AP
- OS grid reference
- SP 924 113
- Coordinates
- 51.79354, -0.66131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an early 19th-century bank fronting a possible 18th-century house and walled garden. The bank is of painted stucco construction, the house and garden walls are red brick, and all have slate roofs.
The bank is two storeys and has an attic. It features architectural detailing on its north gable-end facing the street. It has a plinth and V-rusticated ground floor, a moulded cornice acting as a string, and a returned member of the entablature below a blocking course. Two small, square, projecting pilastered kiosks flank the front, each with an entrance on its facing side and a small, round-headed window with a moulded surround. Two round-arched windows are positioned between the kiosks. The first floor is of smooth stucco, lined as ashlar, with rusticated quoins and a moulded surround to three square-headed openings; the central one is blind, and the outer ones have recessed 6/6 pane sash windows. There is a wide eaves soffit with paired brackets, creating a similar verge to form a pediment with a small, round-headed window in the tympanum.
The house, situated at the rear facing south into the garden, has a two-storey east wing with a rounded corner to the yard. A wall approximately 3 metres high surrounds the garden, featuring pilaster buttresses on the outside above the plinth, which diminish into the wall at half height. The south gateway has two taller, square piers with stone caps and coping between them. It includes an ogee stone arch with a pointed top and a small moulded corbel. The brick jambs have a stone inset for a hinge pin, and a battened wooden door.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank with Attached House,Outbuildings,Walls of Walled Garden,And Gateway on South sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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