National Westminster Bank is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1952. A Georgian Bank. 7 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- quiet-entrance-violet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1952
- Type
- Bank
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 16, Market Place, Chipping Norton
- OS grid reference
- SP 313 271
- Coordinates
- 51.94172, -1.54588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at No. 16 in Chipping Norton, is a former town house dating from around 1780. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a gabled stone-tiled roof with end stone stacks. The building stands three storeys high and has a three-window range, characterized by rusticated quoins and a bracketed cornice above the first-floor windows, along with a plain parapet.
On the top floor, there are six 3-pane sash windows set within moulded architraves, flanking a centrally placed bull's eye window that has spoked glazing. The first-floor windows consist of 12-pane sashes, also set in keyed and eared architraves with bracketed sills, with the central window adorned with a pediment.
The ground floor has been remodelled for bank use, featuring four rusticated and keyed round-arched openings. The two central openings contain sash windows, while the left side has a six-panel door with a spoked fanlight, and the right side features a 20th-century glazed door with a plain fanlight.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2019
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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