National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1989. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- tired-vestry-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1989
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 34 High Street, Pwllheli, LL53 5WY
- OS grid reference
- SH 375 352
- Coordinates
- 52.88983, -4.41546
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a building featuring a 2+2-window scribed stucco front, with an earlier three-storey section and a later two-storey addition. It has slate roofs, brick chimney stacks, and a flat roof dormer, along with a parapet on the left side. The building includes 12-pane sash windows; those on the first floor are adorned with lugged architraves and carved brackets supporting segmental pedimented heads, while the later windows have horns. There is a cill band on the first floor, and an overall cornice and entablature at the ground floor, which is channel rusticated. The ground floor also features four round-arched banking hall windows with keystones and architraves, as well as a round-arched doorway on the right, which has rusticated voussoirs beneath a squared head, panelled pilasters, and recessed panelled double doors. Inside, modern bank fittings are set into a high plinth.
The earlier part of the building extends further to the rear and includes a cross range and a modern flat roof extension.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 5 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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