National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- hidden-corbel-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, Broad Street, Somerton, TA11 7NH
- OS grid reference
- ST 491 285
- Coordinates
- 51.05438, -2.72734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank, originally a house, was built in 1708. It is constructed from local lias stone that has been cut and squared, with painted stone dressings. The building features a clay double Roman tiled roof between coped gables and brick chimney stacks at each end. It has two storeys and five bays, designed in a rural style. Notable architectural details include a plinth, a heavy string course between the floors, and a cornice mould that leads to a secret gutter. The building has 8-pane sash windows, although some of the lower glazing bars have been removed. These windows are set in rusticated surrounds with plain flat heads and moulded cills. The central entrance has a 9-panel door that is accessed by three steps, framed by a bolection mould surround and topped with a thin early 20th-century open segmental door hood supported by brackets. The interior has been significantly modified at the lower level, while the first floor has not been observed.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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