National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, YORK BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207500
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, YORK BUILDINGS
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- 2003-04-07
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207500
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, YORK BUILDINGS
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, YORK BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29826 37098
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE YORK BUILDINGS 736-1/10/212 (North West side) 16/12/74 National Westminster Bank
GV II
Bank. Dated 1904. Limestone ashlar with Flemish-bond brick infill, polished granite-faced plinth, red sandstone blocks to the doorcase and hipped pantile roof. Rectangular plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys. 2 facades of 4 bays to the right and 3 to the left flank a concave entrance bay on the corner. A balustrade over a dentilled cornice and entablature span both facades and is returned to both sides, it is supported by full-height Ionic columns in antis on pedestals which articulate the bays on the west and south facades; the pilasters flanking them are banded and the banding continues round the first floor of the entrance bay. This has a 6/6-pane sash window in a keyed moulded and shouldered architrave behind a convex stone balustraded balcony above a segmental open pediment to the Tuscan-style doorcase with blocking to the lower part of the columns and a wide C20 twelve-panel door. The first floor of each bay has 3 bands of alternate stone and brick, a 6/6-pane sash window in a keyed moulded shouldered architrave resting on a cill string-course between the columns. Below the moulded cill-course carved stone festoons of fruit on brick walls rest on the large keystones of the ground-floor windows. These have segmental arches with shouldered moulding over large 2-light fixed windows and decorative cast-iron railings on the cill (plinth) which has C20 ornamental railings. INTERIOR not inspected. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 98).
Listing NGR: ST2983037103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 98
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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