Yorkshire Bank Including Yorkshire Bank Chambers Entered From Downing Street

The Yorkshire Bank, including the Yorkshire Bank Chambers entered from Downing Street, is a bank building and attached bank chambers dating from around 1900. It is constructed of red ashlar sandstone on a granite plinth, with brick and terracotta above the ground floor, topped by a Westmorland slate roof. The building stands two storeys tall with an attic, featuring six bays facing King Street and five bays on the right return to Downing Street. The rear bank chambers, which face Downing Street, are two storeys high and have three bays, set behind an iron-railed forecourt.

The main facade includes a doorway on the right, which is framed by band-rusticated pilasters and an archivolt with a keystone, all under a segmental pediment supported by foliated consoles. To the left of the doorway are five refenestrated openings, divided by attached Doric columns that rest on the granite plinth, with a later sign positioned beneath the cornice. On the first floor, there are round-headed windows with moulded sills and cavetto surrounds, separated by small triangular piers. The spandrels are decorated with foliage and cartouches, while the frieze features lozenges beneath the cornice, with triangular projections at each pier. The parapet is interrupted by a dormer in bay two, which has a two-light window beneath a frieze cornice and a ball-finialled gable. Bays three to six have similar windows beneath a large shaped gable that displays a coat of arms under a segmental pediment, also with ball finials. There is a projecting end stack on the left side.

The right return of the building is generally similar to the front, with the ground floor featuring tripartite and two-light openings, along with two roof dormers. The bank chambers include a round-arched four-panel door on the left and scattered fenestration beneath two half-dormers with arched two-light windows.