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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 205 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1926 to 1926
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5310 5458 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Modern - 1926 AD to 1926 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1086013: NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (East Side) No 70 (National Westminster Bank) TQ 5354/1/16 13.4.51 II 2. Modern Georgian style building. Dated 1926. 4 storey pedimented facade with 3 windows to each floor and centre circular attic window in pediment. Red brick filth blue headers. Red brick quoins and dressings. Flat arches of rubbed red headers over windows with centre projecting stone voussiors. Centre stone voussoir over centre window on 1st floor carved and enriched. Recessed rectangular brick panels of blue headers over 1st floor windows. Sash windows in moulded exposed frames with glazing bars and projecting moulded stone cills. Centre sash windows on all floors with 3 vertical panels. Narrower sash windows to right and to left with 2 vertical panels. Top circular window in pediment with glazing bars and 4 stone voussoirs placed diametrically. Painted wooden moulded modillioned pediment with carved and enriched console brackets and egg-and-dart moulded fillet. Leaded roof to pediment gable and ridge tile roof to rear. Ground floor with slightly projecting office front with 4 fluted Ionic columns suppoting moulded entablature with dentilled cornice. Ornamental cast iron railings surmounting office front and forming long narrow verandah in front of first floor windows. Stone plinth to office front. Panelled double doors to left (up 3 moulded stone steps) with fan- light over in moulded wooden arched surround with centre projecting voussoir. 2 office windows to right with glazing bars in wooden arched moulded surrounds. 2 ornamental panels of cast iron railings in front of both office windows. The whole of the ground floor office front is of unpainted dark teak.
Listing NGR: TQ5310854580 (1)
In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. 70 High Street was found to have the entire floor area taken by the cellar. Cellars at back of property. (2)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: ?. 1994. Sevenoaks Cellar Survey. |
