National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank in Bakewell is a bank building from the late 19th century. It is constructed of dressed and ashlar sandstone with a concrete tile roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring five bays facing Water Lane.

The exterior includes a chamfered plinth and large quoins. There are various mullioned and transomed windows that are connected by flush sill bands and lintel bands. The fourth bay has a double door beneath cusped and leaded transom lights, set in a Tudor-arched surround with a hoodmould and a carved finial. The fifth bay is gabled and features a three-light banking hall window with colonnettes, a cross window on the first floor, and a three-light mullioned window in the attic, all with dripmoulds.

The second bay is also gabled and has a double-chamfered doorway leading to the bank chambers, along with a single-light window featuring coloured and leaded glass. Above this, there is a three-light stair window with two transoms and coloured and leaded glass, plus a small window in the gable. The first bay has a three-light window below a cross window, while the third bay has cross windows on each floor, and the fourth bay has a single-light window above the main door. The building is topped with a moulded eaves cornice, gablet kneelers, copings, and a carved finial on the fifth bay.

An ashlar end stack is present on the first bay. The ground floor generally features 20th-century casements, while the first floor has plain sashes and the attic contains iron casements. The right return, facing Rutland Square, has moulded single-light windows with colonnettes flanking ashlar corbelling to an oriel bay window with a 1:2:1 light arrangement beneath a hipped roof with a lead finial, and an end gable on the right. The interior has not been inspected.