Former National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. Commercial premises. 7 related planning applications.
Former National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- unlit-mortar-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1976
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Former National Westminster Bank, 7, Fore Street, Chard, Chard Town, TA20 1PJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 321 085
- Coordinates
- 50.8729, -2.9655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former National Westminster Bank, located at No 7 Fore Street in Chard, is a building dating from around 1820. Originally two houses, it has been converted into commercial premises with flats above. The building is constructed from Ham Hill stone ashlar, with an unseen roof and brick stacks. It features a double-depth plan and is designed in a Classical style.
The façade consists of three storeys and a four-window range. The ground floor displays chamfered rustication, with 20th-century six-panel doors on either side, each topped with semi-circular fanlights; the left door has been altered. The doors are set within round arches, while later 19th-century one-over-one pane sashes above have flat arches, rusticated voussoirs, and a platband above. The first and second floors each have four two-over-two pane sashes with keystones, with the first-floor sashes integrated into the platband above. A moulded cornice and a parapet with recessed panels are present above the windows.
The upper floors of the interior have not been inspected.
Local climate
Former National Westminster Bank receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 7 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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