Description

BRISTOL

ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton
901-1/34/1127 (West side)
04/03/77 No.106
National Westminster Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITELADIES ROAD
(West side)
No.106)

II

Bank. 1906. By Drake and Pizey. Limestone ashlar, ashlar
lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian
Baroque style.
3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front with
a plain plinth, banded ground floor with large alternate
quoins to a band, piano nobile with giant Ionic pilasters to a
frieze, modillion cornice and a steep pediment with low
parapet each side.
A large doorway has a semicircular arch with plate-glass
overlight and panelled 2-leaf doors; above the key is an
elaborate rocaille cartouche. Attached Gibbsian Ionic columns
to an open segmental pediment, with small pedimented panels at
the base.
Ground-floor windows have segmental heads, transoms, scrolled
shoulders and ears, and keys with volute tops. First-floor
windows have shouldered and eared architraves and tall keys in
a gabled hood, and smaller second-floor windows with flanking
blocked columns and keys, both with sashes with glazing bars;
central tripartite windows, the first-floor one with Gibbsian
columns and a central segmental pediment. Wreathed panels to
the frieze, and a segmental pediment inside the tympanum with
an attic window with scrolled architrave and a key that
bisects the pediment.
The right elevation is similarly composed, a 3-window range,
paired windows to the upper floors, and a central pediment
flanked by small stacks and a balustrade.
INTERIOR: remodelled c1960. An elaborate Edwardian design with
2 good elevations.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 392).

Listing NGR: ST5751474470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571069

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