NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2-10, TAVERN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387456
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2-10, TAVERN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387456
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK
Statutory Address 1:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2-10, TAVERN STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2-10, TAVERN STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM1628344622

Details

TM 1644 NW 642/1/10072

TAVERN STREET (South side) Nos. 2-10 NatWest Bank

GV II

Bank. 1928. Designed by F C R Palmer for the National Provincial Bank. Brown brick with orange brick and ashlar dressings. Hipped black pantile roof. 3 storey. Corner site. Neo-Georgian style. Ashlar plinth. Main 5 window facade to Corn Hill has recessed 3 window centre with 2 tall Ionic stone columns. Centre has round arched doorway with ashlar impost band and double doors with fanlight over flanked by brick pilaster with ashlar capitals, beyond single windows. Either side further single windows flanked by pairs of Ionic brick pilasters. Above moulded ashlar entablature. Upper floors have giant Composite order with similar recessed centre with 2 stone columns. Central window flanked by brick pilasters and further single windows with pilasters beyond, and similar smaller windows to upper floor with linking ashlar cill band. Either side single windows flanked by pairs of brick pilasters. Deeply moulded ashlar cornice. Tavern Street facade has 5 window block to right identical to the Corn Hill facade, with to left a plainer 3 window facade. This block has 4 storeys with 3 large windows on the ground floor with ashlar keystones and ashlar band above. First floor has 3 small square windows. Second floor has 3 further tall windows with ashlar keystones and brick panels below. Third floor has 3 small square windows with ashlar keystones. INTERIOR has well preserved ground floor banking hall with polished wooden panelling and ornamental plaster cartouches supporting the panelled plaster ceiling with large central domed ceiling light. Included as a good example of the work of the leading specialist designer of banks in the inter-war period.

Listing NGR: TM1628344622

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Legacy System number:: 475417
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.