Description

CREDITON

SS826000 HIGH STREET
672-1/5/109 (North side)
No.133
The National Westminster Bank

GV II

Bank. Circa 1870. Flemish bond brick with painted Ham Hill
dressings; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Eclectic
Victorian style.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. The front of the main block is
divided into 3 bays, each with 3 windows, by rusticated
pilasters, corner bay in the centre, with a moulded cornice
with paired brackets below the parapet. Platbands at first
floor level and decorative stone panels below the ground floor
window sills. A plainer bay adjoins at the left in Market
Street with the carriage entrance at the far left end, also in
Market Street. The corner bay is divided into three on the
ground floor by Tuscan columns; central doorway with rounded
corners and a keyblock to the banking hall flanked by windows
with similar embrasures with C20 glazing. Dentil cornice and
moulded string above fascia. First floor Venetian window with
a stone architrave, a keyblock to the centre light and sill
brackets, like all the other first floor windows this retains
its original glazing of 4-pane sashes with margin panes.
Segmental headed attic dormer with a moulded shouldered
architrave, the sill cutting the parapet. The High Street
elevation has 3 ground floor round-headed windows with pointed
stone architraves with incised decoration; C20 glazing. First
floor and attic windows match those in the corner bay. The
Market Street bay of the main block is in a matching style
with 2 similar ground floor windows and a tall doorway to the
left with a pointed arched architrave. The 3 first floor
windows match the centre light of the Venetian window. The
plainer left hand bay in Market Street has a platband at first
floor level, rusticated quoins and a pair of round-headed
windows to each storey with stone architraves. A wall
adjoining at the left contains a round-headed arched carriage
entrance filled with a pair of boarded doors.
Interior: Banking hall modernised, C19 features of interest
may survive elsewhere.
Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS8322600326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584917

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)