National Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank, 70, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086013
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- National Westminster Bank, 70, High Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086013
- Date first listed:
- 13-Apr-1951
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- National Westminster Bank, 70, High Street
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- National Westminster Bank, 70, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sevenoaks
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53108 54580
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 October 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 5354/1/16
HIGH STREET (East Side)
No 70 (National Westminster Bank)
13.4.51
II
Modern Georgian style building. Dated 1926. Four storey pedimented facade with three windows to each floor and centre circular attic window in pediment. Red brick filth blue headers. Red brick quoins and dressings.
Flat arches of rubbed red headers over windows with centre projecting stone voussoirs. Centre stone voussoir over centre window on first floor carved and enriched. Recessed rectangular brick panels of blue headers over first floor windows. Sash windows in moulded exposed frames with glazing bars and projecting moulded stone cills. Centre sash windows on all floors with three vertical panels. Narrower sash windows to right and to left with two vertical panels. Top circular window in pediment with glazing bars and four stone voussoirs placed diametrically. Painted wooden moulded modillioned pediment with carved and enriched console brackets and egg-and-dart moulded fillet. Leaded roof to pediment gable and ridge tile roof to rear.
Ground floor with slightly projecting office front with four fluted Ionic columns suppoting moulded entablature with dentilled cornice. Ornamental cast iron railings surmounting office front and forming long narrow verandah in front of first floor windows. Stone plinth to office front. Panelled double doors to left (up three moulded stone steps) with fan-light over in moulded wooden arched surround with centre projecting voussoir.
Two office windows to right with glazing bars in wooden arched moulded surrounds. Two ornamental panels of cast iron railings in front of both office windows. The whole of the ground floor office front is of unpainted dark teak.
Listing NGR: TQ5310854580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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