National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270512
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270512
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, WILMSLOW ROAD
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, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84993 93136
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW WILMSLOW ROAD, Withington 698-1/8/848 (East side) 03/10/74 National Westminster Bank
II
Bank. Later C19. Sandstone ashlar. Rectangular single-storey 6-window banking hall in Jacobean style, symmetrical, with a moulded plinth, moulded sill-band, drip-band stepped over the windows, ball-flower and dart frieze, and pierced parapet with ornamented upstands and corbelled tourelles at the corners. The central entrance has a basket-arched doorway under an elaborate porch in the form of a corbelled-out shaped-gable canopy carried on 2 slender marble columns with foliated caps, enrichment to the gable including corner tourelles and an elaborate cartouche inscribed "Manchester and County Bank Ltd". Each side of the entrance are 3 large cross-windows with slender shafts, 2 large arched lights below the transom and 4 small arched lights above. Hipped roof with tall coupled cylindrical chimneys on the ridge. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8499393136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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