Churchill House, Chester

[1] It served as the Headquarters of Western Command during the Second World War and was visited by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Charles de Gaulle.

[2] It remained the command headquarters until that formation was disbanded and the building was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1972.

The building remained in military use until it was acquired by North West Securities, a subsidiary of Bank of Scotland, for use as their Head Office in 1997.

[3] The building was heavily altered in 1998, with a distinctive hexastyle portico, formed by Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a pediment, being added to the building's façade.

[4] The building, which became "Capital House" when North West Securities was re-branded as Capital Bank, passed to HBOS on its formation in 2001 and to Lloyds Banking Group on its formation in 2009.