Old Bank House

WOLSINGHAM FRONT STREET NZ 0737 (South side) Wolsingham 39/371 No. 43 (Old Bank House) GV II

House. C17 with C19 alterations and additions. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with red and yellow brick chimneys; gable copings. U-plan with ranges parallel to street. 3 storeys, one wide bay on street elevation. Single-chamfered windows, irregularly-placed, of 3 lights on ground floor and 2 on upper floors; plain stone surrounds to lower 2 with fixed lights; horizontal sliding sash on top floor. Small square window at right on ground floor is blocked. Left chimney on external stack; roof copings on curved kneelers, the rear one missing. Left return has 2-storey section completing range between gabled bays; central paired half-glazed doors in raised stone surrounds, that at left with flat Tudor arch; left gable has C19 label moulds over 2-light windows; right gable has first-floor level corbels supporting chimney stack; small square window beneath in stone surround; at right of stack, similarly-shaped windows under label moulds on each upper floor. U-plan roof is pent over central entrance bay. Interior: 4-centred-arched chamfered stone fire-arch in front first-floor room.

Listing NGR: NZ0735237207