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National Westminster Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Great Harwood, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7859 / 53°47'9"N

Longitude: -2.4077 / 2°24'27"W

OS Eastings: 373232

OS Northings: 432247

OS Grid: SD732322

Mapcode National: GBR CSMN.JM

Mapcode Global: WH96W.Z3MJ

Plus Code: 9C5VQHPR+8W

Entry Name: National Westminster Bank

Listing Date: 9 March 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1072736

English Heritage Legacy ID: 183879

ID on this website: 101072736

Location: Great Harwood, Hyndburn, Lancashire, BB6

County: Lancashire

District: Hyndburn

Electoral Ward/Division: Netherton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Great Harwood

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Great Harwood St Bartholomew and St John

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


GREAT HARWOOD QUEEN STREET and
SD 73 SW
TOWN HALL SQUARE
2/76 National Westminster Bank
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GV II

Bank, c.1900, originally branch of Manchester and County Bank. Ashlar,
with slate roof and copper-clad dome. In free Jacobean style. Two
facades, hinged on a chamfered corner surmounted at roof level by an
octagonal turret surrounded at the top by 2-light stone mullion windows,
with corner colonnettes carrying a copper dome. Both facades have a
dentilled string course and a cornice with egg-and-dart decoration, both
end in a gabled attic with finials and a mullioned window; both have a
multiple light transomed 1st floor window with Ionic pilasters to jambs
and mullions, both have cornices to these and other windows (which are
double-tiered); and both have low attic dormers. At ground floor the
Queen Street facade has a doorway with decorated surround, oval fanlight
and corniced canopy on large moulded consoles; the other facade has
mullion and transom windows.


Listing NGR: SD7323232247

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