NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1-5, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324729
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1-5, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324729
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 1-5, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD

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, 1-5, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD

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

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 08627 91196

Details

1. 5186 OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (North Side) Nos 1 to 5 (odd) (National Westminster Bank) SZ 0891 13/129 1.8.74.

II

2. Prominently sited at corner of Richmond Hill, originally called Central Chambers, 1888 by Lawson and Donkin. Mixed Renaissance, 4 storeys and dormer. Ground floor of stone, with pilasters, remodelled circa 1920. Upper floors, giant Ionic pilasters of buff brick with Bath stone dressings, yellower brick for voussoirs lst floor windows 2-light, with pilaster mullion, under triangular pediment. 2nd floor windows have arched glazing bars under broad 4-centred arches, with spandrels of Purbeck stone. 3rd floor window segment-headed, in pairs, 4th floor dormers with segmental pediments supported by consoles, against slate mansard. Main dentil cornice supported on coupled console brackets. Includes annexe in Old Christchurch Road: same ground floor, but 2 upper floors entirely of stone with giant pilasters. Window segmental on lst floor, round-headed on 2nd, moulded frames, panelled spandrels. Main cornice on console brackets over frieze, top balustrade.

Listing NGR: SZ0862791196

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Legacy System number:: 101799
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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.