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National Westminster Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Sevenoaks, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2698 / 51°16'11"N

Longitude: 0.1934 / 0°11'36"E

OS Eastings: 553108

OS Northings: 154580

OS Grid: TQ531545

Mapcode National: GBR MN4.7QP

Mapcode Global: VHHPS.9BLX

Plus Code: 9F32759V+W9

Entry Name: National Westminster Bank

Listing Date: 13 April 1951

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1086013

English Heritage Legacy ID: 172191

ID on this website: 101086013

Location: Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13

County: Kent

District: Sevenoaks

Civil Parish: Sevenoaks

Built-Up Area: Sevenoaks

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Sevenoaks St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 October 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 5354/1/16

HIGH STREET (East Side)
No 70 (National Westminster Bank)

13.4.51

II

Modern Georgian style building. Dated 1926. Four storey pedimented facade with three 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 voussoirs. Centre stone voussoir over centre window on first floor carved and enriched. Recessed rectangular brick panels of blue headers over first floor windows. Sash windows in moulded exposed frames with glazing bars and projecting moulded stone cills. Centre sash windows on all floors with three vertical panels. Narrower sash windows to right and to left with two vertical panels. Top circular window in pediment with glazing bars and four 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 four 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 three moulded stone steps) with fan-light over in moulded wooden arched surround with centre projecting voussoir.

Two office windows to right with glazing bars in wooden arched moulded surrounds. Two 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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