National Westminster Bank Limited is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1971. Bank. 15 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank Limited
- WRENN ID
- sheer-merlon-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1971
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank Limited, 10 and 12, St Peters Street, AL1 3LY
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75256, -0.33798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank Limited, located at Nos 10 & 12 St Peter's Street, is a building from the late 19th century or early 20th century designed in the Neo Gothic style, which was popular with the Westminster Bank during that period. It is a notable example of this architectural style.
The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dress and a tiled roof. The main block consists of three storeys and an attic, featuring a gable on the right side, while the right-hand wing has two storeys and an attic with a small gable. It includes two and three-light casements set within flush ashlar surrounds, with caned friezes on the first floor beneath dripmoulds. There is a canted oriel bay on the right and a sill level band. The ground floor has a ceiling level band, and the panels above the windows are intricately carved with shields and foliage.
The entrance features two narrow doors on the left with oblong fanlights, and a wider door on the right with a traceried fanlight. This door is set within a chamfered arch that has a dripmould above a row of arched panels adorned with cusps.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank Limited sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 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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