Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4028
Building Number
247
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/04/1980
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
247 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258203
Northing
372081
Street Side
Location
On a bend in the road with lower shops to right.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built 1860; architect, Henry Kennedy of Bangor - chosen as he was a customer of the Bank. Italian Renaissance palazzo style.
Exterior
3-storey, 5-bay front; snecked rubble with freestone ground floor and dressings, including 1st floor cornice band, dentil eaves and saw-tooth and dentil cornice. Deeply recessed sash windows with keystones to 2nd floor, round headed to 1st floor with anchor shaped finials and continuous impost band. Overall 1st floor balcony with pierced balustrade, advanced over porch to extreme left; deep cornice with elongated fluted brackets continuing across the whole front (largely obscured by modern fascia). Panelled pilasters flanking chamfered arched entrance with ornate ironwork tympanum over double panelled doors. Paired Venetian style 2-light banking hall windows to centre with foliage carved capitals to shafts and panelled spandrels and apron; altered to right by inserted cash dispenser.
Interior
The interior retains acanthus cornice to Banking Hall with tapered pilasters and Corinthian capitals; broad cove to right hand end.
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 252 to 256, opposite.
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