National Wesminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Bank. 17 related planning applications.
National Wesminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- brooding-joist-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Wesminster Bank, the Commons, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00635, -2.19807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, located at No 2 The Commons, is a mid-19th century building that stands three storeys high and features five windows. It has a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and an ashlar front. Above the first floor, there is a band, and the windows have segmental heads with square-headed painted stone archivolts that include triple keystones. The ground floor is stuccoed, and there is a stuccoed plinth. The entrance features a doorway flanked by pilasters, with three-light bank windows and an entablature above. This building forms a group with Nos 2 to 8 (even) on the street.
Local climate
National Wesminster Bank receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 17 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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