Latitude: 51.48 / 51°28'47"N
Longitude: -3.1799 / 3°10'47"W
OS Eastings: 318161
OS Northings: 176330
OS Grid: ST181763
Mapcode National: GBR KHM.YF
Mapcode Global: VH6FD.T2S8
Plus Code: 9C3RFRHC+X3
Entry Name: National Westminster Bank
Listing Date: 26 March 1976
Last Amended: 30 April 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 14073
Building Class: Commercial
Also known as: The Alchemist, Cardiff
Alchemist
ID on this website: 300014073
Location: To R of Hodge House; almost opposite Central Market.
County: Cardiff
Community: Castle (Castell)
Community: Castle
Built-Up Area: Cardiff
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Pub
Built 1857; by Thomas Lysaght, architect. Additional entrance bay to N, 1978 by Holder & Mathias, architects.
Bank. Painted C16 style Italianate palazzo facade. Three storeys, five windows; sash glazing to upper floors. Rusticated quoining and ground storey. Bracketed crowning cornice. Segmental headed windows with keystones to second floor. Segmental headed windows with keystones to second floor. Bracketed pediments to first floor windows. Dentil cornice over ground floor. Five arches to ground floor (former entrance door at north end); river god keystones to rusticated arches. To R, (N), modern entrance bay, concrete and plate glass.
Modernised.
One of earliest and most impressive of Cardiff's Victorian banks. Group value.
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