National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1996. Bank. 8 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- errant-rampart-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1996
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 148, High Street, ME4 4DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 757 679
- Coordinates
- 51.38306, 0.52386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at 148 High Street in Chatham, is a bank building constructed in 1903 by W Campbell Jones. It is designed in the Arts and Crafts style and features a limestone ashlar exterior, ashlar ridge stacks, and a tiled roof. The building occupies a two-room corner site and stands three storeys tall with a three-gable range. The ground floor has a rock-faced finish and includes sill bands on each floor, with steep coped gables that have finials connected by a parapet.
The façade facing High Street has a single bay, while the right return has two bays, each containing three keyed segmental-arched ground-floor windows with architraves. The first floor features flat-headed windows with segmental-arched labels on brackets, and the second floor has windows divided by small niches topped with a cornice and a segmental-arched centre. The left-hand bay is two storeys high and includes a projecting porch with a flat-headed doorway and a balustrade.
The corner is curved and recessed, topped with an octagonal ogee-domed lantern that has segmental arches for small windows and rectangular lights above. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes. The interior has been altered in the mid-20th century on the ground floor. Overall, this well-composed Arts and Crafts bank effectively utilizes its corner location.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- Related listed building consents — 8 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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