91 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 2001. Bank. 11 related planning applications.
91 High Street
- WRENN ID
- late-banister-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 2001
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- 91 High Street, ME14 1SA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 760 557
- Coordinates
- 51.27334, 0.52257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
91 High Street is a bank building constructed in 1927 for the National Provincial Bank, designed by Frederick Charles Palmer, who was the architect for the bank from 1920 to 1932, likely with assistance from Walter Holden. The building showcases a Neo-Georgian style and is made of thin hand-made red bricks laid in Flemish bond, featuring stone dressings and a hipped tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks topped with moulded stone caps.
The structure is two storeys high and has five windows. It is adorned with a modillion cornice and end quoins. The central three windows project beneath a pediment that displays an enriched shield with the county insignia, which features a white horse rampant and the motto "INVICTA," along with floral swags in high relief. The first-floor windows are 15-pane sashes with horns, set in paler red brick surrounds that include a central keystone. The central window is framed by a stone architrave with a curved pediment supported by brackets, and below it is stone balustrading. The other windows have blank panelling beneath them.
On the ground floor, the central three windows are designed as round-headed arches supported by engaged Tuscan columns and two piers. The central window has been shortened to accommodate late 20th-century banking machinery, while the other two are full-height and feature cast iron scrollwork, with the left window displaying entwined initials (N P B). The ends of the building have entrances with round-headed arches and fanlights, also supported by engaged Tuscan columns and end piers. The doorcases are embellished with moulded stone architraves and a top tablet with consoles, leading to six-panelled oak doors that open onto stone steps and semi-circular fanlights.
Inside, the building features shell niches at the doorway and in the Banking Hall, with wooden Composite columns and cornices decorated with Vitruvian scrolls. A large dome is topped with decorative cast iron fishscale patterned glazing that includes opaque glass.
Palmer and Holden were known for creating several notable Inter-War banks for the National Provincial Bank.
Local climate
91 High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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