Former National Westminster Bank
40, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086491
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 40, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086491
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Former National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LJ
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:
- 40, High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74250 68665
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7468
7/54
ROCHESTER
HIGH STREET
No 40
(Formerly listed as No 40 (National Westminster Bank))
GV
II
Bank. Late C19. Free Renaissance style. Finely pointed red brick with stone dressings (white limestone and yellow sandstone). Three storeys; almost symmetrical three-window range. Quoins; open parapet with bulbous balusters; second floor windows; 1:2:1, round-headed, flanked by composite pilasters, panelled aprons, the pediments breaking into the parapet, the central segmental pediment containing bank initials and floral relief. First floor windows: 2:3:2, with heavy surrounds, the central oriel window corbelled out with large console bracket, all set under panelled cornice. Ground floor, three windows and right-hand entrance all with shouldered arches with Corinthian pilasters and panelled plinth. Left-hand shaped stone stack; right-hand stack rebuilt in brick.
Note: the extension of the bank to the right (No 38) is not included in this list. (The site was formerly occupied by a Grade III building, now demolished).
Listing NGR: TQ7424268658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172985
- 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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