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
9709
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1991
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Newcastle Emlyn
Town
Locality
Easting
230799
Northing
240581
Street Side
Location
Prominently situated at S end of narrower part of Sycamore Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built for the National Provincial Bank, possibly by Palmer and Holden, the bank's architects in the Interwar period. An unusually well-designed building, of great importance in the streetscape.
Exterior
Dated 1930 on rainwater head. Bank building in rock-faced squared brown sandstone with low pitched slate roofs and 3 stone stacks. Tall 3-storey L-plan building in distinctive neo-Georgian style with pedimented gabled 2-window W front to street line, 2-window prominent S side facing down street and one-window W-facing return. Moulded painted timber eaves cornice and W pediment with roughcast tympanum. Painted metal-framed leaded windows with concrete sills, square windows to upper floor, full-height French windows with top-lights to first floor and shallow curved-ended balconies with ornate wrought iron rails. Arcaded ground floor with raised plinth and impost band, leaded windows and metal glazing bars, with decorative leading to elliptical-arched heads. Concrete sills and recessed panels below windows. In right bay of street front, doorway with matching fanlight, painted timber bolection-moulded surround and double panelled doors. One-window return has similar but broader elliptical arched carriage entry with triple folding panelled doors. Stone flagged through hall with big rear ledged doors and stone staircase up on left wall with wrought iron rails to lower flight.
Rear wall is rendered with projecting stair tower. End stacks to rear range and one N side stack to front wing.
Interior
Internal fittings removed circa 1989.
Reason for designation
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