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Latitude: 51.7022 / 51°42'7"N
Longitude: -2.9054 / 2°54'19"W
OS Eastings: 337527
OS Northings: 200773
OS Grid: SO375007
Mapcode National: GBR J9.3XKV
Mapcode Global: VH79V.LGDY
Plus Code: 9C3VP32V+VR
Entry Name: National Westminster Bank
Listing Date: 1 April 1974
Last Amended: 30 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2136
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300002136
Built 1848 by RH Thomas of Newport for the Monmouthshire and Glamorgan Bank. Probably formerly fronted with railings. Inhabited by Edward John Trelawny, friend of Byron and Shelley, who brought back cedar tree seeds from the cemetery in Italy where Shelley's ashes were buried, and planted the seeds in and around Usk.
Bank in Classical style. Rendered and painted with shallow-pitched slate roof and tall and narrow rendered corniced end cross-ridge stack. Two storeys. Raised and staggered quoins, eaves band, eared architraves, shallow bracketed sills. A 3-window range of 6-pane sashes to first floor. Ground floor has shallow steps up to grand central porch with deep entablature with billet moulding supported by paired fluted columns with lotus-leaf capitals, rear pilasters; door with 3 horizontal panels. Paired plate glass windows with surrounds similar to above on either side of doorway. Plinth.
Of special interest as an early purpose-built bank in Classical style, andretaining its character.
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