34, The Bank

34 The Bank is an inn that has been converted into a house, dated 1742, and incorporates 17th-century fabric in its rear wing. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with a plinth and painted rusticated quoins, topped with a roof of stone slates featuring stone gable copings and ashlar and rendered chimneys.

The exterior is three storeys high with a four-window range and a two-storey rear wing. There are steps leading up to a wide two-panel door located in the second bay, framed by an architrave with a segmental pediment. The date and initials "RD 1742" are inscribed in the pediment. To the left of the door is a cross-casement window in plain reveals, which is said to have been inserted in a former vehicle entrance. The other tall windows on the ground and first floors have architraves and projecting stone sills, while the smaller two-light casements on the top floor abut the top entablature with an eaves gutter cornice. The roof features slightly swept eaves, stone gable copings on cyma-moulded kneelers, and rendered end chimneys on stone plinths. The rear wing has varied openings with stone and wood lintels.

Inside, there is a dogleg stair with turned balusters and newels, and a closed string. The top floor has boarded and two-panel doors, with windows in splayed reveals that drop to form seats. The roof is completely ceiled with no access. The rear wing is partly plastered, and the first-floor boards have been removed, revealing a first-floor fireplace with a flat Tudor-arched stone surround, some wood-mullioned windows, and one window on an internal wall that features lozenge leaded glazing with original glass, although it is damaged.

Historically, the building was originally known as the Hat and Feather inn, later called the Turk's Head, and then the Shoulder of Mutton until 1955, when it became locally known as the Bucket of Blood. It was derelict until restored by the current owner, although the rear wing has not yet been restored.