Gibson House including area walls, piers and railings

This is a bank, constructed between 1870 and 1872 by John Gibson of Westminster, originally for the National Provincial Bank and now used as offices. The building is constructed in sandstone ashlar, with a rear elevation of red brick in Flemish bond, a Welsh slate roof, brick stacks, and renewed wrought iron railings.

The building occupies a square island site, with its principal elevation facing south-east onto Cleveland Street and another facing south-west onto Gosford Street. The Cleveland Street elevation is one storey with a basement and five bays, designed in a French Baroque style. It features an applied Roman Doric order with guttae and paterae to the frieze, inscribed with "NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND". The central entrance is accessed via six steps and is positioned beneath a projecting pedimented portico. The entrance itself has panelled double doors and a blind overlight with modern signage, set within a corniced, fluted surround. Above this is a three-light mullioned window with modern glazing. The central pediment is supported by paired columns with guttae and paterae and is inscribed “ESTABLISHED A D MDCCCXXXIII,” indicating the founding date of the National Provincial Bank. The tympanum contains sculptures by Charles Henry Mabey of London depicting Britannia flanked by an ironworker and a miner.

Flanking the entrance portico are tall round-headed windows with renewed glazing and modern iron grilles, within quasi-Tuscan surrounds, featuring scrolled keystones and moulded sills resting on scrolled consoles, flanking panelled aprons. The elevations incorporate paired columns at the ends and pilasters between the windows, all set on pedestals. Basement windows have iron grilles. Above the frieze and dentilled cornice is a straight parapet with pierced geometric-pattern panels set between square pedestals. The roof is shallow-pitched and hipped, with corniced stacks to front and rear.

The south-west elevation to Gosford Street and the north-east elevation are similarly styled, featuring a single-storey three-bay banking hall and a two-storey two-bay rear element. The rear element is plainer, with square-headed windows and stone sills. An entrance with panelled double doors and a blind overlight, containing modern signage, is located in the first bay of the south-west elevation. The frieze above both the south-west and north-east elevations is inscribed “REBUILT ANNO DOM. MDCCCLXXII”. The rear (north-west) elevation is of red brick in Flemish bond. The ground floor is largely obscured by a late 20th-century modern flat-roofed extension.

The building is enclosed by a stone area wall with moulded caps and plain railings. Coupled gatepiers mark the Cleveland Street entrance, with a blue plaque attached to the left gatepier.