National Westminster Bank

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NW HALL QUAY 839-1/12/47 (North East side) 26/06/90 No.23 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: HALL PLAIN No.23 National Westminster Bank)

GV II

Bank. 1904-6. By AS Hewitt. Brick with a stone facade. Slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style. The banking hall is of one tall storey with a 2-storey facade added for effect, at the first floor only one room deep. One wide window range. The facade has a narrow entrance bay set to the right of a window bay, both defined by rusticated quoins. The window is a Venetian window on granite Ionic columns, with a rusticated arch and garlanded cartouches right and left. The door bay has a polished granite entrance with a fanlight set between a pair of rusticated Doric columns rising to a swan-necked pediment. Over this is a circular window set inside a garlanded cartouche. At the second floor is a balustrade. Wide and narrow bays continue, separated by paired Ionic columns rising to block entablatures. 3 rusticated windows to left bay and one to right bay. Over left bay is a set-back segmental pediment with heavy dentilations. Crenellated pediment. The banking hall returns have 2 round-headed sashes. INTERIOR: banking hall with marble Ionic pilasters supporting a decorative coffered ceiling with plaster devices. (Eaton D: Information from Norfolk Museums Service Archives).

Listing NGR: TG5228607515