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There are numerous interesting features including the original aluminium-cast banking hall doors, which consist of an abstract triangle design based on the NatWest logo and are painted to resemble bronze.

The banking hall itself has a coffered ceiling of plasterboard covered in gold leaf and Travertine marble floors and skirtings.

The exterior is covered in abstract plaster murals and bronze matt ceramic tiles.

The lift shaft and two ventilation towers are constructed using brick.

The structure was constructed of precast concrete with waffle concrete floor slabs.

There are four plant floors at the top of the tower and 100 car park spaces in a basement car park that has been left disused upon the discovery of asbestos.

The office block was accessed via a stainless steel surround doorway on Newhall Street, where the land begins to drop, exposing the ventilation grills for the basement.

The entrance here appears to be of a later date to the rest of the building.

The office block has a service core at the centre of each floor, consisting of a large service duct, lavatories, four lift shafts and staircase.

The lifts have stainless steel doors and the lift lobby has Travertine panelling on the walls.

There is a kitchen on the twentieth floor which retains its original green panels and equipment, such as the dumbwaiter.

The NatWest logo was attached to the west side of the building, although has since been removed leaving only the bracketing.

It is believed that considerable efforts were made to reduce the cost of the tower's construction, which took place during a time when rising oil prices ended the development boom of the 1960s making an increasingly hostile economic climate.

Examples of cost-cutting measures employed during the construction of the building include the use of plasterboard to mimic concrete on the banking hall's ceiling and the use of an alternative metal to bronze for the banking hall doors.