National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145795
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145795
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61159 78714
Details
MAIN STREET 1. 5166 (east side) No 55 National Westminster Bank. (Formerly listed as No 55 (District Bank) and Bank House) SD 6178 NW 5/83 12.2.62 II GV
2. Mid C19. Two storeys and attic. Classical. Ashlar. Slate roof. Seven bay facade with pedimented break forward in fourth and fifth bays. Four chimneys with setbacks. Banded restication to ground floor. Plinth, first floor sill band, entablature and blocking course. Sunk plain surrounds to ground floor windows with deeper sunk panels under. First floor windows have single roll on arris. All windows sashed with all glazing bars except left hand side ground floor, sashed, and bays four to seven, modern fixed. Doorways in third bay and in centre of break with cornices on elaborate consoles. Four panel doors. Rectangular fanlights. Hipped stone dormer with slate hung cheeks. Interior. In vestibule and banking hall mahogany doorcases with cornices on consoles. Panelled counter with fluted Doric pilasters. Staircase with semicircular end. Stair with stone treads and foliated cast iron balusters. On first floor large room with panelled window reveals down to floor.
Listing NGR: SD6115978714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75196
- 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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