The National Westminster Bank
THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 133, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297322
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 133, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297322
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 133, HIGH 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.
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:
- THE NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 133, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83226 00326
Details
CREDITON
SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/109 (North side) No.133 The National Westminster Bank
GV II
Bank. Circa 1870. Flemish bond brick with painted Ham Hill dressings; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Eclectic Victorian style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. The front of the main block is divided into 3 bays, each with 3 windows, by rusticated pilasters, corner bay in the centre, with a moulded cornice with paired brackets below the parapet. Platbands at first floor level and decorative stone panels below the ground floor window sills. A plainer bay adjoins at the left in Market Street with the carriage entrance at the far left end, also in Market Street. The corner bay is divided into three on the ground floor by Tuscan columns; central doorway with rounded corners and a keyblock to the banking hall flanked by windows with similar embrasures with C20 glazing. Dentil cornice and moulded string above fascia. First floor Venetian window with a stone architrave, a keyblock to the centre light and sill brackets, like all the other first floor windows this retains its original glazing of 4-pane sashes with margin panes. Segmental headed attic dormer with a moulded shouldered architrave, the sill cutting the parapet. The High Street elevation has 3 ground floor round-headed windows with pointed stone architraves with incised decoration; C20 glazing. First floor and attic windows match those in the corner bay. The Market Street bay of the main block is in a matching style with 2 similar ground floor windows and a tall doorway to the left with a pointed arched architrave. The 3 first floor windows match the centre light of the Venetian window. The plainer left hand bay in Market Street has a platband at first floor level, rusticated quoins and a pair of round-headed windows to each storey with stone architraves. A wall adjoining at the left contains a round-headed arched carriage entrance filled with a pair of boarded doors. Interior: Banking hall modernised, C19 features of interest may survive elsewhere. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SS8322600326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387060
- 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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