National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1993. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- quartered-oriel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/03/2020
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LAUNCESTON WESTGATE STREET (south side) Nos. 14 and 16 National Westminster Bank
[Formerly listed as National Westminster Bank, Nos.12, 14 AND 16, WESTGATE STREET (South side)]
GV II
Bank, now part offices. c1870, inscribed "Launceston Bank". Polychrome faced rubble with freestone dressings; steep slate roof with three coped gables to front. Large overall irregular U-shaped plan. High Victorian style. Two storeys plus attics; five-bay range. Mullioned windows with original horned sashes to attics and first floor; fixed lights to ground floor. Left-hand bay has two-light above three-light and four-light windows with relieving arch and arched lights; next bay with squat three-light over doorway; then three bays with similar transomed windows with hoodmoulds to ground floor; ventilated gable over single-light and three-light windows; two-light over three-light; large gable with two-light over canted slate-roofed corbelled oriel over three-light and on right a two-light over doorway. Both doorways have pointed arches with trefoils to blind tympanae under polychrome relieving arches and hoodmoulds enclosing inner order over nook shafts, original doors.
INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest.
Listing NGR: SX3312684474
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