Description

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TQ 5354/1/16

HIGH STREET (East Side)
No 70 (National Westminster Bank)

13.4.51

II

Modern Georgian style building. Dated 1926. Four storey pedimented facade with three 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 voussoirs. Centre stone voussoir over centre window on first floor carved and enriched. Recessed rectangular brick panels of blue headers over first floor windows. Sash windows in moulded exposed frames with glazing bars and projecting moulded stone cills. Centre sash windows on all floors with three vertical panels. Narrower sash windows to right and to left with two vertical panels. Top circular window in pediment with glazing bars and four 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 four 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 three moulded stone steps) with fan-light over in moulded wooden arched surround with centre projecting voussoir.

Two office windows to right with glazing bars in wooden arched moulded surrounds. Two 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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26375372

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)