National Westminster Bank

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.