National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, CORN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228693
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, CORN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228693
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1, CORN HILL
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, 1, CORN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46005 09692
Details
WISBECH CORN HILL TF 4509 6/37 5/37 No. 1 (National Westminster Bank) GV II Bank, built in 1853. Architect, John Gibson (b.1817, d.1892). Formerly the National Provincial Bank. Yellow gault brick with stone dressings and rusticated first floor. Slate roof. Three storeys with attics; three symmetrical bays. Parapet to roof balcony with stone copings, quoins surmounted by ball finials. Deep stone modillioned cornice, cill band at second floor and plain stone plinth. Three second floor, six-paned hung sash windows; three first floor windows, twelve-paned hung sashes in eared architraves with pulvinated friezes and deep cornices. Pierced stone balcony across three bays. Two ground floor hung sash windows with rusticated architraves flank central Roman Doric doorcase with double doors and round-headed fanlight with glazing bars. Dixon, Mulhesius, Victorian Architecture, Thames and Hudson, p.258, 1978. Pevsner, Buildings in Englands, p.500. S. Smith (b.1802, d.1892), photographic collection, W. & F. Mus.
Listing NGR: TF4600509692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 258
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 500
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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