National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Bank. 14 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- strange-step-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 120-122, High Street, OX1 4DF
- OS grid reference
- SP 514 061
- Coordinates
- 51.75212, -1.2557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at 120 to 122 High Street, is a mid to late 19th-century building designed by Horace Francis in the Venetian Gothic style. It is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and features three storeys and an attic with a seven-bay frontage. The building has two-light windows with pointed heads set in moulded architraves. A notable Venetian doorway is adorned with Balmoral granite half-columns and a trefoil head, with three-light windows positioned above it. At the corner, there is an oriel turret topped with a conical roof. The building also has gabled dormers, one with a stepped gable, and a slate roof. A shorter front faces Alfred Street. Additionally, decorative wrought-iron railings encircle the northwest corner of the building. All the listed buildings on the south side of the street form a group.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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