Trustee Savings Bank

The Trustee Savings Bank is a building located in Barnard Castle, originally a house that later became partly a shop and offices, and is now used as a bank and offices. It dates from the mid-18th century, with a 20th-century bank addition. The structure is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and painted dressings, topped with a roof of Welsh slate and featuring a stone and brick chimney.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a four-window range. The bank front includes panelled end pilasters, three windows, a high plinth, and a top entablature. The entrance is located on the left, leading to doors that provide access to a yard passage on the left and the bank on the right. The upper floors have painted architraves around plain sash windows, with the top floor's windows having been lengthened since the 19th century from square to rectangular shapes. The roof features a chimney at the right end that has been raised in brick.

The rear of the building displays broad glazing bars in the windows of an extruded stair wing. The south side of the yard contains a three-storey, four-window range and a two-storey (raised to three), two-window range, which includes a square projecting bay window next to the front range. Most of the two-panel and half-glazed doors, as well as the sashes with 12, 6, or 4 panes, have plain stone surrounds, some of which are tooled. The ground floor features a left end casement in a mullioned window and a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash in the third bay. The second floor has a 12-pane sash with architraves to the left of the three-storey build. Some openings have been blocked, and there is a high corniced stone pier attached to the left end of the range.

Inside, a low arch at the rear of the passage leads to an enclosed first flight of stairs. The dogleg stair to the upper floors has a closed string, turned balusters, a ramped grip handrail, and panelled newels. The doors on the upper floors feature four fielded panels, with panelled reveals and architraves. There is a dado rail along the stair and in some rooms, and one room has a stucco cornice. The window architraves are also present. Notably, the second floor of the rear wing contains a window with broad glazing bars and bullion glass, which has one pane inscribed with a scratched message dated 22 October 1788 and signed W Porit.