HSBC Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 2005. A Inter-war Bank. 1 related planning application.
HSBC Bank
- WRENN ID
- muted-jamb-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 December 2005
- Type
- Bank
- Period
- Inter-war
- Address
- HSBC Bank, 1 Lancaster Square, Walled Town, LL32 8HT
- OS grid reference
- SH 780 775
- Coordinates
- 53.28047, -3.83068
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
HSBC Bank is a single-storey building constructed in the inter-war free-classical style. The walls are made of pale grey snecked rock-faced stone, set on a plinth of larger coursed rock-faced blocks, with Bathstone freestone dressings. The steep hipped roof is covered with graded slates and features a freestone parapet balustrade above a moulded eaves cornice.
The entrance, located at a splayed corner, is framed by an ashlar surround. It includes full-height tapering Tuscan pilasters and simpler inner pilasters that support recessed double fielded-panel doors, topped by a keyed round arch with a metal radial-glazed fanlight. The entablature above has disc ornamentation over the main pilasters and a billet frieze below the cornice. The corner parapet features a raised field below a shallow plain pediment.
On the left side wall facing Rosemary Lane, there are three arcaded round-headed windows with keystones and a linked hood mould, featuring steel-framed margin-lit glazing. The shorter right side wall facing Lancaster Square has paired similar windows, with the left-hand window containing a deposit box in the sill and the right-hand window housing a cash dispenser at sill level. A freestone band beneath the eaves on both elevations displays a modern bank sign, and an attached cast-iron street sign is located at the corner of the Rosemary Lane elevation.
Set slightly back at the end of the Rosemary Lane elevation is a lower one-storey wing made of snecked rock-faced stone, topped with a hipped roof of graded slates and a rock-faced stone stack. This wing features a three-light mullioned and transomed window. Further along, the elevation connects to a yard wall that includes a boarded door.
Inside, the banking hall is characterized by a ceiling with a plaster dentil cornice.
Local climate
HSBC Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- 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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