Description

SE2233SW LS28 LIDGET HILL
(east side)
PUDSEY
National Westminster
6/136 Bank

- II

Bank. Late C19. Ashlar, Westmorland green-slate roof. Fills a corner site.
2 storeys with basement and attics. 5-bay symmetrical facade with gabled
canted ends. Plinth. Archivolted arched portal with engaged polished granite
Composite columns supporting cornice surmounted by heraldic beasts with shields
flanking blocking course with "BANK" in raised lettering. Flanking portal are
small keyed-arched windows. 3-light cruciform window above flanked by single
lights with transoms articulated by Ionic pilasters. Above is similar 3-light
window in steep finialled gable flanked by ogee-domed pinnacles. Outer bays have
cruciform windows of 3 lights to ground floor and 2 lights to 1st floor. Under
lst-floor window is a carved panel. Balustraded parapet. Canted ends have
similar windows, that to left has lst-floor balcony, that to right segmental
lst-floor oriel. Hipped roof with ends under separate pitched gables. Stack set
above 1st bay. Left-hand return of 3 bays. Outer bays have transomed window.
Other bays and 1st floor have windows with chamfered lintels and projecting sills
with above 1st and 2nd bays gabled dormers with flush 4-pane sashes in architraves.
Stack to rear gable.

Has similar elements of design as the National Westminster Bank, Queen Street,
Morley (q.v.), and No 10 Bradford Road, (the National Westminster Bank), Brighouse
(q.v.) designed by C. S. Nelson (Leeds) in 1895 for the London and Yorkshire
Bank Ltd. It is possible this bank is of similar date and by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SE2229233437

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576969

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey