Halifax bank building up for sale
The building which housed a Halifax bank until it shut this month is for sale.
What used to be NatWest, on Waterhouse Street in Halifax town centre, is on the market for £450,000.
Its listing on property website Rightmove suggests the space could be used for retail or offices.
NatWest closed the branch – its last remaining one in Calderdale – on June 18.
Halifax MP Kate Dearden had tried to save the branch, launching a petition against the closure and writing to the bank’s CEO.
The ground floor comprises an “impressive double height banking hall with many original features,” says the Rightmove listing.
"The upper floors benefit from their own entrance from Crown Street and have already been converted into 11 one-bed flats and two two-bed flats.”
The next nearest NatWest branches are in Bradford, Leeds or Huddersfield.
Announcing the closure earlier this year, NatWest said: “With the ease of mobile and online banking fewer people are coming into the bank. This means we’ve had to make some tough choices about which can stay open.
“So, we want to make sure that we keep the branches people are using most.”
The firm said closing a branch “is always difficult”.
The Halifax branch saw a 56 per cent decrease in counter transactions for customers between October 2019 and October 2025, it added.
Of those customers using the branch, 76 per cent were also using online banking or the NatWest app.
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