National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 April 1980. Bank. 4 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- deep-wall-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1980
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 247 High Street, Bangor, LL57 1RP
- OS grid reference
- SH 582 720
- Coordinates
- 53.22681, -4.12558
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a three-storey building with a five-bay front, constructed from snecked rubble with a freestone ground floor and decorative dressings. Notable features include a cornice band on the first floor, dentil eaves, and a saw-tooth and dentil cornice. The windows are deeply recessed sash windows with keystones on the second floor, while the first floor features round-headed windows with anchor-shaped finials and a continuous impost band. There is an overall first-floor balcony with a pierced balustrade, which advances over a porch on the far left. A deep cornice with elongated fluted brackets runs across the entire front, although it is largely obscured by a modern fascia.
The entrance is flanked by panelled pilasters and features a chamfered arched doorway with an ornate ironwork tympanum above double panelled doors. In the centre, there are paired Venetian-style two-light banking hall windows with foliage-carved capitals on the shafts, along with panelled spandrels and an apron; the right side has been altered to accommodate an inserted cash dispenser.
Inside, the banking hall retains an acanthus cornice with tapered pilasters and Corinthian capitals, and there is a broad cove at the right-hand end.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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