Number 33 Eastgate Street National Westminster Bank, 33, Eastgate Street and Row
3, St Werburgh Street
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376236
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Number 33 Eastgate Street National Westminster Bank, 33, Eastgate Street and Row
- Statutory Address:
- 3, St Werburgh Street
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-04-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/06867/06
- Rights:
- © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1376236
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Number 33 Eastgate Street National Westminster Bank, 33, Eastgate Street and Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, St Werburgh Street
- Statutory Address 2:
- Number 33 Eastgate Street National Westminster Bank, 33, Eastgate Street and Row
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:
- 3, St Werburgh Street
- Statutory Address:
- Number 33 Eastgate Street National Westminster Bank, 33, Eastgate Street and Row
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40634 66342
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 May 2021 to correct an error in the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ4066SE
595-1/4/161
CHESTER CITY (IM)
EASTGATE STREET AND ROW (North side)
No.33 Eastgate Street (National Westminster Bank)
(Formerly listed as No.33 Street (National Westminster Bank)
(Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (North side) No.33) (Formerly Listed as: ST WERBURGH STREET No.3 Westminster Chambers)
23/05/67
GV
II*
Includes: No.3 ST WERBURGH STREET.
Bank, Dixons or Parrs, now National Westminster. 1859-60. By George Williams. Yellow sandstone; roof concealed.
EXTERIOR: a symmetrical facade of three storeys, correctly composed and detailed. The rusticated first storey has a high pierced plinth between two porches with round archways: that to the east, the main entrance, has shaped double three-panel doors; that to the west, a little narrower, leads by thirteen stone steps to the east end of the Row. The upper storeys are set back behind a four column Corinthian blank portico; containing three tall two-pane unequal sashes with architraves and pediments on consoles to the second storey, a third storey sillband and three two-pane sashes in architraves. One window-bay to each side of the portico has similar sashes to each storey, under a straight cornice on consoles to the second storey and with architraves to the third storey. Modillion cornices to pediment and eaves; panelled parapet with vase-balusters; attic course above pediment. The east side to St Werburgh Street is more simply expressed. The first storey has the rusticated east side of the entrance porch, a lateral chimney with a round arch on brackets above a small-pane window at its base and three triplets of round-arched small-pane windows with radial-bar fans to the banking hall. The second storey has a floor-string and eight unevenly-spaced recessed sashes, three of eight-panes and five of twelve-panes, in eared architraves. The third storey has three recessed eight-pane sashes and, in the lower northern portion, five shorter nine-pane sashes above the twelve-pane sashes of the second storey; cornice returned from the Eastgate Street frontage. The northernmost bay, formerly No.3 St Werburgh Street, Westminster Chambers, is probably 1867-8 by John Douglas, designed in conjunction with No.31 Eastgate Street and 25 Eastgate Street Row (qv) in Vernacular Revival style, of red sandstone and timber frame with plaster panels with grey-green slate roof, gable to street. The first storey of sandstone has a three-light mullioned and transomed leaded casement under a label-mould and a twelve-panel door with overlight in Tudor-arched surround with carved spandrels and lable. Stone brackets to timber-framed second storey with close studding and one rail at transom-level of the six-light mullioned and leaded casement; a small leaded casement at each corner beneath the boldly jettied third storey which has close studding with carved braces and shaped panel-heads and two three-light leaded casements.The gable, like the third storey, is jettied on two shaped brackets; panelled herringbone strutting; moulded bargeboards.
The attribution to John Douglas is tentative; he negotiated with Chester City Council to set a building line back in St Werburgh Street in exchange for permission to jetty the verge at the same time that he submitted plans for rebuilding for James Dickson of, probably, No.31 Eastgate Street/25 Row which abutted the yard of No.3 St Werburgh Street.
INTERIOR: the banking hall has a richly panelled ceiling supported by four Ionic Columns; the secondary entrance is through No.3 St Werburgh Street; the upper storeys are stated to be modernised internally. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 14/6/1867).
Listing NGR: SJ4063466342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470230
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 05:58:02.
Download a full scale map (PDF)© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
End of official list entry