The National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1993. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
The National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- nether-hearth-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The National Westminster Bank, Great West Road, TW7 5NR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 163 774
- Coordinates
- 51.4838, -0.32611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a bank building located on Great West Road in Brentford, constructed in 1935 by WFC Holden as the Osterley branch of the National Provincial Bank. The building features brown brick with Portland stone dressings and has a flat roof, consisting of a single storey. The main banking office is double-height and bow-fronted towards Great West Road, flanked by lower wings. The left wing includes a bow-fronted public entrance on the return side.
Designed in an Expressionist style, the bowed facade facing the road has three tall ladder windows with margin glazing, separated by columns with brick ribs that continue as moulded features in the stone-coped parapet. The lower wings have groups of similar full-height ribs forming straight angles, each equipped with a rainwater head and drainpipe that connect to a low stone-coped continuous plinth. The entrance on the return side features a bowed design with blind wings and a central recessed doorway, flanked by recessed margin glazed ladder windows, accessible via bowed and shaped steps.
The stone-coped parapet and plinth add to the building's character. Behind the facade, the blind return of the double-height office rises with ribbed angles. Although the interior has been fitted out to meet late 20th-century requirements, it still retains timber panelling on the walls and piers. The bank was designed to complement Sir Bannister Fletcher's Gillette Factory nearby.
Local climate
The National Westminster Bank sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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