91 High Street

91, High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1SA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271516
Date first listed:: 23-May-2001
List Entry Name:: 91 High Street
Statutory Address:: 91, High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1SA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271516
Date first listed:: 23-May-2001
List Entry Name:: 91 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 91, High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1SA

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:: 91, High Street, Maidstone, ME14 1SA

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 76053 55710

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 7655 NW 883/2/10017

Maidstone HIGH STREET No 91

(Formerly listed as Nat West Bank)

23-MAY-01

GV II

Bank. Built in 1927 for the National Provincial Bank to the designs of Frederick Charles Palmer (architect to the National Provincial Bank between 1920 and 19320, probably assisted by Walter Holden. Neo-Georgian style. Built of thin hand-made red bricks in Flemish bond with stone dressings and hipped tiled roof with end brick chimneystacks with moulded stone caps. Two storeys; five windows. Modillion cornice and end quoins. Central three windows project under a pediment with enriched shield bearing the county insignia, white horse rampant and the motto "INVICTA" and floral swags in high relief.

First floor windows are 15-pane sashes with horns in paler red brick surrounds with central keystone but the central window has a stone architrave with curved pediment with brackets and stone balustrading below. Other windows have blank panelling below. Ground floor has under projecting centre three round-headed arches supported on engages Tuscan columns and two piers. The central window has been shortened to insert late C20 banking machinery. The others are full-height with cast iron scrollwork, the left side one with entwined initials (N P B). Ends have entrances with round-headed arches with fanlights, engaged Tuscan columns and end piers. Doorcases have moulded stone architraves with top tablet with consoles, six-panelled oak doors up stone steps and semi-circularfanlights.

INTERIOR: Shell niches to doorway and Banking Hall with wooden Composite columns, cornices with Vitruvian scroll and a large dome with decorative cast iron fishscale patterned glazing with opaque glass.

HISTORY: Palmer and Holden were responsible for some fine Inter-War banks for the National Provincial Bank.

Listing NGR: TQ7605355710

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487600
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.