National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank is a four-storey building located on Shoreditch High Street in an Italianate style, constructed between 1865 and 1880. It features a heavy cornice adorned with modillions and long brackets, with paterae interspersed. The front is made of York stone and is six windows wide, with each storey designed differently. The top floor has round arched windows with moulded architraves and cable moulding, along with projecting bracketed stone cills that have cast iron guards. The second floor windows are framed in a quasi-Corinthian Order with pediments, while the first floor showcases rounded windows in moulded architraves with scrolled keystones, all within a full Corinthian Order that includes attached columns, guilloche moulding in the frieze, and a modillion cornice. The ground floor features a projecting bracketed cornice supported by quasi-Corinthian granite pilasters and a granite plinth, with iron window guards. A round arched entrance is located on the right side of the building. The structure is partly of steel frame construction.