National Westminster Bank

ULVERSTON

SD2878 626-1/3/106 20/06/72

QUEEN STREET (West side) No.2 National Westminster Bank (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.2)

GV II

Bank and attached house, now bank and offices. Mid C19. Probably by Websters of Kendal. Limestone ashlar with slate roofs. 2 separate facades. The former house to the left is of 3 storeys and 4 bays, with a rusticated ground floor and a moulded cornice. The 3 right-hand bays project forwards under a pediment and have round-arched ground-floor windows, 1st-floor windows with architraves and with cornices on console brackets, and 2nd-floor windows with pilaster reveals. The left-hand bay is blind on the ground floor and has windows with plain reveals above. The windows are mostly sashed, with glazing bars to those on the ground floor. Rising above the pediment there is a chimney cap with cornice. The main bank facade is set back slightly to the right and is of 3 storeys and 3 bays with a rock-faced plinth, a rusticated ground floor, a 2nd-floor sill band, and a strongly projecting modillion cornice. A central die is flanked by carved scrolled brackets and inscribed 'BANK'. The windows have lugged architraves. Those on the 1st floor have pediments, segmental in the centre and triangular to each side. They are sashed except for the left-hand one on the 2nd floor which is now divided into casements. The left-hand window opening on the ground floor now contains a cash dispenser. The recessed porch is formed by 2 Tuscan columns in antis under a cornice. The inner doorway has a round arch with lion mask keystone. Chimneys to left and right with limestone caps. INTERIOR: the large banking hall remains and has a compartmented ceiling with 3 lantern lights. The walls have a continuous plasterwork triglyph frieze and are divided into bays (4 x 3) by unfluted Doric pilasters on high bases.

Listing NGR: SD2854778330