National Westminster Bank Including Bank Chambers
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING BANK CHAMBERS, 86, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355045
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING BANK CHAMBERS, 86, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355045
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank Including Bank Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK INCLUDING BANK CHAMBERS, 86, HIGH STREET
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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 INCLUDING BANK CHAMBERS, 86, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45444 26611
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 HIGH STREET 842-1/5/139 (North side) 08/11/49 No.86 National Westminster Bank incl Bank Chambers (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North side) No.86) (Formerly Listed as: THE QUAY Doctor's Surgery adjoining Bank)
GV II
Bank and offices. Early or mid C19; part of it (probably the left-hand section) probably c1853 by RD Gould of Barnstaple. Solid rendered walls. Slate roofs; left-hand section a mansard, that to right (on the corner) hipped. 3 rendered chimneys with bracketed cornices. Plan consists of 3 distinct builds: a relatively low block to left of High Street frontage, a taller corner block, and another low block at the rear, fronting King Street. 3-storeyed corner block; the others 2-storeyed. Left-hand block facing High Street is of 5-window range. Ground storey is of vermiculated blocks; round-arched windows (the middle one originally a doorway) with moulded imposts and large bearded-head keystones; 2-paned casements with 2-paned transom-lights. Upper-storey windows have rusticated architraves with triple keystones; pedestal-course below; 6-paned sashes. Modillioned eaves cornice surmounted by a balustrade. Corner block has 3-window front to High Street and 5-window front to The Quay. Horizontally-channelled ground storey; panelled double-doors in place of middle window to High Street. Second-storey windows have moulded architraves on continued bracketed sills; pulvinated friezes, cornices alternating with triangular pediments. Third-storey windows have moulded cornices on continued sills. Top entablature with bracketed eaves-cornice; frieze with circular panels. Ground and third-storey windows have barred sashes; 2 panes over 4 panes in ground storey to High Street, 6 over 6 panes to The Quay; 3 over 6 panes in the third storey. Second storey has 3-paned wood casements with 2-paned transom-lights. Rear wall has round-arched third-storey window (visible from The Quay) with moulded architrave and vermiculated keystone. Block facing King Street is 4 windows wide. Panelled double-doors with 3-paned fanlight in place of left-hand window; left jamb has attractive name-plates and bell-pushes, perhaps of the 1930s. All windows have barred sashes: 6 over 6 panes in ground storey, 3 over 6 panes in second storey. Moulded plinth in ground storey, continued sills in second storey. Tall panelled parapet, wholly concealing the roof. INTERIOR partly inspected. Ground-floor banking-hall remodelled in late C20, although lowered ceiling may conceal earlier detail. Entrance to Bank Chambers in King Street has Georgian-style wooden staircase (probably 1930s) with ramped handrail and thick square-section balusters. The builder is believed to have been EB White of Bideford. (Grant A: The Book of Bideford: 1987-: P.72; Morris: Directory of Devonshire: 1870-: P.348; Bideford Community Archive; newspaper cutting).
Listing NGR: SS4544426611
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grant, A, The Book of Bideford, (1987), 72
Morris Directory in Devonshire, (1870), 348
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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