THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, GREAT WEST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241144
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, GREAT WEST ROAD

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Date:: 2000-06-17
Reference:: IOE01/00026/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241144
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:: THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, GREAT WEST ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, GREAT WEST ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hounslow (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 16325 77422

Details

The following building shall be added:

GREAT WEST ROAD, BRENTFORD TQ 1677 787-/19/10004 The National Westminster Bank GV II

Bank. 1935 by WFC Holden as the Osterley branch of the National Provincial Bank. Brown brick with Portland stone dressings. Flat roof. Single storey. Double-height banking office, bow-fronted to Great West Road, flanked by lower wings, that to left with bow-fronted public entrance on the return. Expressionist style. Bowed facade to road has 3 tall ladder windows with margin glazing separated by columns with brick ribs which continue as moulded features in the stone-coped parapet. Groups of similar full-height ribs form straight angles with blind lower wings, each of which has a rainwater head and drainpipe linking the design to a low stone-coped continuous plinth. On return, bowed entrance with blind wings has central recessed doorway (later C20 doors), flanked by recessed margin glazed ladder windows; approached by bowed and shaped steps. Stone coped parapet and plinth. Blind return of double-height office, with ribbed angles, rises behind. Interior fitted out to late C20 requirements but retains timber panelling to walls and piers. The bank was designed to form a group with Sir Bannister Fletcher's Gillette Factory.

Listing NGR: TQ1632577422

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Legacy System number:: 440079
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.