Campbell Insurance National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1953. Bank. 16 related planning applications.
Campbell Insurance National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- rough-timber-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1953
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Campbell Insurance National Westminster Bank, 151, High Street, GU1 3AD
- OS grid reference
- SU 998 495
- Coordinates
- 51.23607, -0.5716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at Nos. 151 and 153 High Street in Guildford, known as Campbell Insurance and the National Westminster Bank, is a house that has been converted into a bank and offices. It dates from the 18th century and features 20th-century alterations on the ground floor. The ground floor is constructed of stone, while the upper floors are made of red header-bond brick, topped with a plain-tiled roof that is hidden by a stone-coped parapet.
The building stands three storeys tall and has stacks at the rear. There is a plain band at the base of the panelled parapet, with a Portland stone cornice above. The front has four bays with 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows set beneath gauged-brick, keystoned heads. The upper floors contain four 20th-century windows each, while the ground floor features three large fixed windows flanked by alternating piers made up of four thin pilaster strips, which are topped with acanthus and anthemion caps.
A triglyph frieze runs across the ground floor, adorned with classical roundel motifs in the metopes. A shallow balcony extends over the ground floor, with a hanging sign projecting from the end. The entrance doors are located at the right end of the building. At the rear, there is a gabled and weatherboard range to the left, which includes a tripartite sash window, and a white boarded range at the first floor that is set at right angles.
Local climate
Campbell Insurance National Westminster Bank receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 16 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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