National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 3, BULL RING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264758
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 3, BULL RING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264758
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 3, BULL RING
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, 3, BULL RING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepshed
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48003 19576
Details
SK 4719 & SK 4819 BULL RING 8/99 & 9/99 (east side)
No 3 (National Westminster Bank)
II
Bank and manager's house (now incorporated into working area), dated inside 1904, by A E King of Loughborough. Brick and terracotta, hipped plain tile roof, decorative ridge tiles. Two elaborately moulded stacks on front face of roof. Eclectic, and extravagantly decorated. Two-storeys, 5 window range, 1-3-1. Side projections, right-hand one, incorporating high enriched bank entrance, beneath octagonal turret with lead capped roof, and miniature lantern and spire. Central block: ground floor windows with central mullions and keystones. Entrance to manager's house in left-hand part of building now replaced by window. 1st floor, cross windows between enriched Ionic columns. Frieze above, with putti representing the 4 seasons. Ceramic tiled entrance. Interior: coved ceiling with very elaborate plasterwork design of dancers, birds and flowers, with 3-D figures of Mercury at the corners, carried on scagliola columns. Teak counter with "Ionic" columns, (and) panelled dado. "Baroque" doorcases and panelled doors in part which. was the manager's house. Built for the Nottingham and Notts Banking Company. N Pevsner, Leicestershire & Rutland.
Listing NGR: SK4800319576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427036
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (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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