Former Trustee Savings Bank

The former Trustee Savings Bank, 1905 by Roger Lofthouse (Middlesbrough) in the Domestic Revival Style, now (2023) in commercial and residential use.

MATERIALS: constructed in brick in English bond, with sandstone dressings, an ashlar gable and a plain clay tile roof.

PLAN: the building occupies a rectangular plot with the principal elevation facing west onto Albert Road, and various rear extensions and access from Albert Mews.

EXTERIOR: it has three storeys and a two-bay gabled frontage. To the left is a round-headed panelled door in a hollow-chamfered surround with enriched spandrels and a three-light mullioned overlight with Art Nouveau glazing. This is flanked by wall posts on corbels. To the right is a modern shop-front and above are a pair of two-storey segment-plan oriel windows. They have hollow-chamfered mullions and transoms, leaded lights with Art Nouveau glazing in the upper lights, moulded sills, cornices, and panelled parapets. The attic storey has a shaped gable which holds similar leaded-light windows under a dripstone. At the ends are short turrets with ornate iron finials. The roof has corniced transverse end stacks.

INTERIOR: it is understood that the front room on the first floor has Jacobean-style geometric interlace-pattern plaster ceiling panels with moulded ribs, leafy bosses and cornice. The interior also contains wood dado panelling and plain fireplaces.