National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1989. Railway freight store. 4 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- sharp-merlon-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 January 1989
- Type
- Railway freight store
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, SA11 1DB
- OS grid reference
- SS 751 975
- Coordinates
- 51.66242, -3.80595
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a two-storey building featuring a convex seven-bay front. It has a balustraded parapet and a moulded cornice. The first-floor bays are adorned with panelled pilasters, which are broader at the outer ends. The windows are small-paned, two-light casements with moulded architraves and stressed keystones.
The ground floor showcases a deep entablature, decorated with disc metopes and triglyphs that include guttae in the frieze. There is a modern fascia at the centre. The ground floor bays are supported by Doric columns on bases, with additional pilasters featuring similar designs at the outer corners. Low railings span across the bays.
Tall round-arched windows with moulded arches and impost blocks are present, and the keystones serve as consoles for the entablature. The glazing is small-paned and includes fanlights. The central doorway exhibits similar detailing, featuring a blind tympanum with foliate carving, a moulded architrave, and panelled double doors. There is an additional doorway beneath a fanlight to the left-hand bay.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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