The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ROCHESTER HIGH STREET TQ 7468 7/54 No 40 (National Westminster Bank) GV II Bank. Late C19. Free Renaissance style. Finely pointed red brick with stone dressings (white limestone and yellow sandstone). 3 storeys; almost symmetrical 3-window range. Quoins; open parapet with bulbous balusters; 2nd floor windows; 1:2:1, round-headed, flanked by composite pilasters, panelled aprons, the pediments breaking into the parapet, the central segmental pediment containing bank initials and floral relief. 1st floor windows: 2:3:2, with heavy surrounds, the central oriel window corbelled out with large console bracket, all set under panelled cornice. Ground floor, 3 windows and right-hand entrance all with shouldered arches with Corinthian pilasters and panelled plinth. Left-hand shaped stone stack; right-hand stack rebuilt in brick.
Note: the extension of the bank to the right (No 38) is not included in this list. (The site was formerly occupied by a Grade III building, now demolished).
Listing NGR: TQ7424268658

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.