National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Bank.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- watchful-landing-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Rye Road, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 762 305
- Coordinates
- 51.04753, 0.51269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a building that was originally a house, dating from around 1800. It features a rendered exterior with a slate roof, while the rear elevations are weather-boarded and tile hung. The structure has two storeys and a hipped roof with a parapet, and the end bays on both sides are recessed. There are chimney stacks located at the rear left and rear right. The front facade has a regular arrangement of windows, including three sash windows and two tripartite sashes on the first floor, and two tripartite sashes on the ground floor. Notably, the sash window at the right end on the first floor is a dummy, as this wing is simply a wall. The ground floor of this wing features carriage doors to balance the left-hand wing, which has a panelled door set within a cornice-parapetted porch. The central entrance consists of a panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight, framed by a Doric porch that includes a frieze and cornice. The building also has irregular hipped rear wings.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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