National Westminster Bank, Railings, Wall, Gatepiers and Lamp Overthrow
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, RAILINGS, WALL, GATEPIERS AND LAMP OVERTHROW, 5, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197493
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank, Railings, Wall, Gatepiers and Lamp Overthrow
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, RAILINGS, WALL, GATEPIERS AND LAMP OVERTHROW, 5, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197493
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank, Railings, Wall, Gatepiers and Lamp Overthrow
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, RAILINGS, WALL, GATEPIERS AND LAMP OVERTHROW, 5, HIGH STREET
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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, RAILINGS, WALL, GATEPIERS AND LAMP OVERTHROW, 5, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newhaven
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 44550 01452
Details
NEWHAVEN
TQ4401SE HIGH STREET 769-1/8/12 (South side) No.5 National Westminster Bank, railings, wall, gatepiers and lamp overthrow
GV II
Bank building. Circa 1900. Wrenaissance style. Ashlar ground floor, banded in 2 colours, upper stories wide banded brick in 2 shades of red, moulded brick surrounds to third floor windows and panels, stone dressings, deep overhanging wooden eaves with dentil cornice, steeply pitched mansard slate roof, large brick stacks with stone copings. L-plan; on the shorter north facade the land slopes away so the plin this continued as a short length of wall with gatepiers forming a tiny triangular forecourt. Three storeys plus attic, with basement on the north front. West front 3 bays; attic 12-pane sash windows rising from eaves, 6-light sash windows, stone swags between; four 12-light sash windows below; ground floor 2 C20 wooden mullioned and transomed windows to left of entrance, segmental-headed pediments to all ground floor openings, central open pediment with coat-of-arms, door with serpentine head, 4-panel door, fanlight. Left return: 1:1 bays, entrance left in unlit wall, full-height canted bay right lit on each face, attic windows on each face, upper storey of bay 6-light sash window, stone garlands on outer faces, tall narrow 3-light windows below, ground floor segmental-headed window; entrance with segmental-head, 8-panel door, sidelight with decorative wrought-iron, similar to basement lights, flight of 6 steps with wrought-iron railings swept back. Wall: a continuation of the plinth in banded stone, square gatepiers with lamp overthrow, lamp missing. Interior: banking hall encased, possibly gutted, with suspended ceiling possibly concealing original work. Built for the London and County Bank whose coat-of-arms are displayed on the exterior. This handsome and imposing building reflects Newhaven's importance as a port at the end of the C19 when, in revenue terms, it was the sixth largest in the country.
Listing NGR: TQ4455001452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374208
- 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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