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. 2 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
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1986
Type
Bank
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.

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