Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14073
Building Number
117
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/03/1976
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
117 St Mary Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318161
Northing
176330
Street Side
W
Location
To R of Hodge House; almost opposite Central Market.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built 1857; by Thomas Lysaght, architect. Additional entrance bay to N, 1978 by Holder & Mathias, architects.
Exterior
Bank. Painted C16 style Italianate palazzo facade. Three storeys, five windows; sash glazing to upper floors. Rusticated quoining and ground storey. Bracketed crowning cornice. Segmental headed windows with keystones to second floor. Segmental headed windows with keystones to second floor. Bracketed pediments to first floor windows. Dentil cornice over ground floor. Five arches to ground floor (former entrance door at north end); river god keystones to rusticated arches. To R, (N), modern entrance bay, concrete and plate glass.
Interior
Modernised.
Reason for designation
One of earliest and most impressive of Cardiff's Victorian banks. Group value.
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