Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
National Westminster Bank
Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Cardigan
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08238, -4.66148
- Cadw reference
- 10490
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
History
C18. Old photographs show the basic structure of an C18 house to have survived, formerly it appears to have been whitewashed, with 2 large Georgian shopwindows across the 3 left bays, arched doorway in fourth and sash in the fifth.
Exterior
House, stucco fronted and altered possibly in conversion for National Provincial Bank ca1890, slate roof and modern brick end stacks. Two and a half storeys, 5-window range, 3 bays and 2 bays. Overhanging eaves with paired brackets, broken for 3 hornless 12-pane sashes, half-dormers with flat roofs. First floor has 5 ca1890 4-pane sashes in slim raised surrounds, grouped 3 to left and 2 to right and not aligned with windows above. Ground floor 5 bays, 3 windows, main door to bank and door to upper floors framed in row of pilasters with swollen capitals and entablature. In front of main door, in wider bay, entablature is broken forward and carried on 2 matching square piers. Plate glass sashes to windows, modern main door and overlight and 4-panel door with overlight in final bay.
Interior
From first to second floor 2 flights remain of original mid C18 staircase, twisted balusters, moulded rail and square newels. Flat balusters to upper landing.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.