National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1974. Bank. 11 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- odd-cobble-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1974
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 3, High Street, ME14 1HJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27393, 0.52277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at No. 3 High Street, was built in 1909 and designed by architect W Campbell Jones. It features a florid Edwardian Neo-Baroque style and stands three storeys tall. The ground floor is made of rusticated Portland stone, topped by a slate roof with a stone balustraded parapet. A central curved open pediment with a round window is a prominent feature, along with an elaborate cornice supported by brackets. The building has ten engaged columns on the second and third floors, with eight of these coupled and featuring modified Ionic capitals. There are three windows in total, with the three central windows being three-light sashes. A swag moulding runs between the windows of the first and second floors. The ground floor includes five round-headed arches, one of which serves as the entrance door, another as a passage, and the remaining three as shopfronts. Nos 1, 3, and 5 to 9 High Street form a group with this building.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Related listed building consents — 11 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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