18, Newgate Street

No. 18 Newgate Street is a former bank building, dated 1898, designed by architect John R Whitaker for the Yorkshire Penny Bank, now known as Yorkshire Bank. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and is designed in a Free Jacobean style. It stands two storeys tall and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with two sets of six windows.

The building has a high plinth with Scotia moulding that forms a sill string. The left corner includes a porch with open flat-pointed Tudor arches, which are flanked by pilasters. Similar arches are found on the paired overlights beneath a wide segmental arch. The flanking lesseens are adorned with lion finials that hold shields displaying the initials YPB, likely referencing the bank's foundation in 1859. Above this, there is a narrow window with a moulded stone surround and transom, set beneath a carved spandrel.

The building features a slightly projecting head with date panels reading 1898 on each front, supported by a corbelled impost string. A cornice below the turret includes central corbelled small oriels beneath crow-stepped gables, and round angle turrets topped with ball-finialled conical roofs flank a taller turret spire with a spike finial. To the right, there is renewed glazing in a keyed arch with a moulded head, and three-pane top lights on a transom that extend from the imposts. The oriel above has stone mullions and transoms, a hipped stone roof, and a parapet with ball finials and corner turret.

The left return facing the former Bank Street displays irregular fenestration in a similar style, with the right bay featuring a four-light window on the first floor beneath a panel with side consoles, blank shields, and a shaped pediment.