Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11787
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/01/1989
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Neath
Town
Locality
Easting
275189
Northing
197504
Street Side
Location
On the street line where Green Street and Summerfield Place meet Windsor Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1924 as the National Provincial Bank by F C R Palmer and W F C Holden. Free Classicism.
Exterior
Convex 7 bay 2 bay storey front. Balustraded parapet, moulded cornice. Panelled pilasters to first floor bays, broader to outer ends. Small paned 2 light casement windows. Moulded architraves, stressed keystones.
Deep entablature to ground floor. Disc metopes and triglyphs with guttae to frieze. Modern fascia to centre. Doric columns on bases to ground floor bays, additional pilasters with similar details to outer corners. Low railings across bays. Tall round arched windows, moulded arches and impost blocks, keystones form consoles to entablature. Small paned glazing with fanlights. Similar detail to centre doorway. Blind tympanum with foliate carving, moulded architrave, panelled double doors.
Further doorway under fanlight to let hand bay.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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