National Westminster Bank

The National Westminster Bank is a bank building dated 1930, constructed in rock-faced squared brown sandstone with low pitched slate roofs and three stone stacks. This tall three-storey building is designed in a distinctive neo-Georgian style, featuring an L-plan layout. The west front, which faces the street, has a pedimented gable with two windows, while the prominent south side has two windows facing down the street, and there is a one-window return on the west side.

The building showcases a moulded painted timber eaves cornice and a west pediment with a roughcast tympanum. The windows are painted metal-framed leaded windows with concrete sills, including square windows on the upper floor, full-height French windows with top-lights on the first floor, and shallow curved-ended balconies adorned with ornate wrought iron rails. The ground floor is arcaded, featuring a raised plinth and an impost band, with leaded windows and metal glazing bars, along with decorative leading to elliptical-arched heads. Below the windows, there are concrete sills and recessed panels.

In the right bay of the street front, there is a doorway with a matching fanlight, framed by a painted timber bolection-moulded surround and double panelled doors. The one-window return has a similar but broader elliptical arched carriage entry with triple folding panelled doors. Inside, the hall is stone flagged, leading to large rear ledged doors and a stone staircase on the left wall, which has wrought iron rails leading to a lower flight.

The rear wall of the building is rendered and features a projecting stair tower, with end stacks on the rear range and one north side stack on the front wing. Internal fittings were removed around 1989.