Premises Occupied by National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Bank.
Premises Occupied by National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- fallow-sentry-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1972
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Premises Occupied by National Westminster Bank, Princes Street
- OS grid reference
- TM 162 445
- Coordinates
- 52.05718, 1.15239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises occupied by National Westminster Bank is a stucco fronted building constructed in 1901, designed in a free gothic style that echoes early Gothic Revival architecture. It is located at the corner of King Street and Princes Street and features a high panelled parapet adorned with quatrefoil panels and tall pointed "gothic" gables above the attic dormers. The building has a five-window range overall, with two-storey, three-light oriel bay windows at the corner and the south end. The windows are double-hung sashes without glazing bars, set in openings framed by slender "gothic" pillars. Wide panelled bands run between the storeys, with pargetted panels positioned above the windows. The ground storey boasts large three-light mullioned and transomed windows, along with a splayed corner that features an ogee arch. The parapet above the corner oriel bay is castellated and topped with a dome that is surmounted by a cupola with a spire and pinnacles. National Westminster Bank is part of a group with the Swan Inn and the Corn Exchange on King Street.
Local climate
Premises Occupied by National Westminster Bank sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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