NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 102 AND 104, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268910
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 102 AND 104, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268910
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 102 AND 104, FORE STREET

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:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 102 AND 104, FORE STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32810 12611

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/85 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.102 AND 104 National Westminster Bank

GV II

Bank. Late C19. Yellow ashlar sandstone front, with red and yellow brick rear outshuts, and Welsh slated roofs concealed by front parapet. Free Rhenish Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5-bay front with entablature at first-floor level, cornice breaking forward over ground floor pilasters and across centre bay, where it is carried on carved consoles. Main entablature above, first-floor windows with panelled fascia, dentil frieze, and cornice which breaks forward for centre bay, supported on carved brackets and modillions. First floor has banded modified Corinthian style pilasters at left and right, and flanking central bay. Coupled windows, left and right straddling bay divisions, are plain glazed casements each with upper transom light, recessed with surround of pilasters on panelled plinths, separated by a similar attached column on plinths. These support an entablature with panelled fascia, and broad segmental pediment, with half globes raised on cartouches, flanked by carved foliated scrollwork. Small casement in central bay, recessed in moulded eared architrave surround, with small carved volutes at base. Ground floor has 4 round arched windows, with large central light, and margins, recessed within surrounds with attached banded columns, moulded archivolts and carved console keyblocks. There are panelled spandrels around arch, and below sills. Main bay divisions with panelled pilasters. Central doorway, twin leaf hardwood panelled doors with semicircular wrought-iron fanlight within Serliana surround with arched side niches, flanked by attached Corinthian-derived colonnettes, raised on panelled plinths. Door raised on stone steps, with plain offset plinth across building corresponding with ground-floor level. Rear outshuts much altered and of little interest. INTERIOR: of banking hall completely remodelled. Upper floors not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3281012611

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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.