National Westminster Bank

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 27, YORKERSGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202746
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 27, YORKERSGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202746
Date first listed:
10-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address 1:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 27, YORKERSGATE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 27, YORKERSGATE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Malton
National Grid Reference:
SE 78596 71599

Details

SE780715
801-1/8/173
10/06/74

MALTON
YORKERSGATE
(South side)
No.27
National Westminster Bank

II

GV

Bank. 1866, with C20 alteration. By Rawlins Gould for Robert
Bower, proprietor of the East Riding Bank. Italianate style.
Front of sandstone ashlar, rear of pink and cream mottled
brick, with slate roof. 2-storey 7-window front, on plinth. 3
entrances, one in centre, and one at each end. Doorcases
composed of pilasters on pedestals, and plain entablatures
with console cornice hoods. Central doorcase Tuscan; the outer
ones have moulded imposts beneath coved triglyph blocks. Doors
are of 6 raised-and-fielded panels, with segment-headed
overlights, in keyed architraves. All windows are round-headed
single-pane sashes with aprons, those on ground floor in
Gibbsian surrounds, those on first floor in raised
architraves, all with grooved console keyblocks. Moulded
first-floor band, and moulded sillband on each floor, which on
first floor forms coping to attached balustrade with urn
finials beneath centre window. Moulded impost band on both
floors, on ground floor continuing across doorheads to form
transoms to overlights. Moulded eaves band and heavy cornice
on console brackets, beneath sunk panelled parapet with urn
finials on square piers. Besides providing premises for the
East Riding Bank, the building included living accommodation
for the first cashier, Thomas Reed, and offices rented by a
firm of solicitors, Messrs Walker and Langborne.
(Malton Messenger: East Riding Bank: 1866-; The Westminster
Bank in Leeds: 1960-).


Listing NGR: SE7859671599

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Legacy System number:
389599
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Malton Messenger in East Riding Bank, (1866)
Malton Messenger in The Westminster Bank in Leeds, (1960)

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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