National Westminster Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Bank. 7 related planning applications.
National Westminster Bank
- WRENN ID
- quartered-rubblework-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1981
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- National Westminster Bank, 4 Westgate, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 992 747
- Coordinates
- 51.46262, -3.45213
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The National Westminster Bank is a mid-19th century building that stands two storeys tall. Its front elevation features five bays, constructed with stuccoed render and topped by a slate gabled roof, which has stuccoed flanking stacks. On the ground floor, there are four tall segmentally headed sash windows, each with 12 panes and without horns. The centre of the building has a square prostyle porch, which is adorned with a stuccoed moulded cornice. Each return of the porch has a rectangular recess, and the front doorway is square-headed, set within a rectangular recess that includes a plain overlight and double doors that are moulded and panelled in a style from the mid to later 19th century. On the first floor, there are five square-headed sash windows, also with 12 panes but with horns. Additionally, there is a late 19th-century hood above the ground floor doorway on the right elevation.
Local climate
National Westminster Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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