National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Bank.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- dusk-thatch-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Church Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 759 623
- Coordinates
- 51.35952, -2.34679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, formerly known as The Avenue, is a bank building located on Church Road in Combe Down, dating from around 1860 with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, with the roof not visible behind the parapets. The building features a consistent neo-Georgian style.
The exterior is three storeys high with three windows, all of which are twelve-pane sashes. The first floor windows have cornices supported by carved consoles. The ground floor has a central light with shallow flanking panels and a radial lunette above. A door has been inserted into a former window opening at the left end of the ground floor. The building includes a plinth, a first floor sill band, a cornice, and a blocking, with a central raised panel inscribed with the word "BANK" in raised characters.
On the left side, which faces The Avenue, there is a plain flank that has a small sash window with a cornice on brackets above a former doorway that is now blocked. The coped gable features a deep ashlar stack with a fluted frieze. The rear wall also has sash windows and includes 20th-century additions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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