Listed Building: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK (1086013)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 661, 1, 16 |
Date assigned | 13 April 1951 |
Date last amended |
Description
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (East Side) No 70 (National Westminster Bank) TQ 5354/1/16 13.4.51 II 2. Modern Georgian style building. Dated 1926. 4 storey pedimented facade with 3 windows to each floor and centre circular attic window in pediment. Red brick filth blue headers. Red brick quoins and dressings. Flat arches of rubbed red headers over windows with centre projecting stone voussiors. Centre stone voussoir over centre window on 1st floor carved and enriched. Recessed rectangular brick panels of blue headers over 1st floor windows. Sash windows in moulded exposed frames with glazing bars and projecting moulded stone cills. Centre sash windows on all floors with 3 vertical panels. Narrower sash windows to right and to left with 2 vertical panels. Top circular window in pediment with glazing bars and 4 stone voussoirs placed diametrically. Painted wooden moulded modillioned pediment with carved and enriched console brackets and egg-and-dart moulded fillet. Leaded roof to pediment gable and ridge tile roof to rear. Ground floor with slightly projecting office front with 4 fluted Ionic columns suppoting moulded entablature with dentilled cornice. Ornamental cast iron railings surmounting office front and forming long narrow verandah in front of first floor windows. Stone plinth to office front. Panelled double doors to left (up 3 moulded stone steps) with fan- light over in moulded wooden arched surround with centre projecting voussoir. 2 office windows to right with glazing bars in wooden arched moulded surrounds. 2 ornamental panels of cast iron railings in front of both office windows. The whole of the ground floor office front is of unpainted dark teak.
Listing NGR: TQ5310854580
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 5310 5457 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ55SW |
Civil Parish | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 10:25AM