National Westminster Bank

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279585
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, EAST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279585
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
National Westminster Bank
Statutory Address 1:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, EAST STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 10, EAST STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ilminster
National Grid Reference:
ST 36180 14526

Details

ILMINSTER

ST3614 EAST STREET 1939-1/7/33 (South side) No.10 National Westminster Bank

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Bank. c1860. Ham Hill stone ashlar, coursed rubble returns, slate roof and ashlar stacks to gable ends and centre. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 6-window range. Ground floor has 6-panel doors under plain semicircular fanlights to each side, set-back in doorcases with plain pilasters and foliate capitals, supporting arches with simple moulding to inner and outer edges. These are set slightly forward under a frieze of alternating roundels and vertically-reeded panels. The 2 central bays are stepped slightly forward on all floors with a semicircular pediment containing a roundel of a horse on a shield; a moulded cornice supported by 3 pilasters separates the central windows. All the windows have beaded reveals, 1/1-pane sashes to the ground floor, 2/2-pane sashes to the first floor and 2/2-panes to the second, set in recessed semicircular-arched surrounds with aprons of polychromatic tiles, resting on a string course. There is also a string course at impost level and a thin moulding following the shape of the arches and absent keystones to the 4 outer ranges. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST3617814525

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
383396
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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