NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD, 129, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1092016
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD, 129, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1092016
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD, 129, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK LTD, 129, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 42000 11296

Details

1. HIGH STREET 5239 (west side)

No 129 (National Westminster Bank Ltd) (formerly listed as No 129 (premises occupied by National Provincial Bank) SU 4111 3/147 SU 4211 4/147 14.2.69

II*

2. 1867 by John Gibson in an Italionate style. Narrow main frontage to High Street of 3 bays. Long return elevation of 7 bays to St Michael's Street. Faced in varied stonework with brown to white tints. Two storeys attics and basement. Roof concealed behind raised parapet with circular of fretwork and central dormer with curved pediment over. Bracketted cornice and frieze. End rusticated quoins. Sashes to first floor with moulded architraves and elaborate panels beneath. Ground floor windows are round-headed with keystones. Round-headed recessed entrance to frontage flanked by engaged Ionic columns supporting entablature hood on scroll brackets with large sculptured coat of arms above incorporating statuary of female figures, lions and swags. The interior has an entrance foyer with round-arched coffered ceiling and massive composite columns.

Listing NGR: SU4200611268

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Legacy System number:: 135843
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.