Former Royal Bank Of Scotland

The building is a former bank with chambers above, dating to 1890 and designed by Isitt and Verity. It has been altered at ground floor level. Constructed of polished grey granite to the ground floor, red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings above, it features a hipped roof of graduated green slates. The building is elongated, set at right angles to the street, incorporating a through-passage to the right, providing access to the chambers. It is designed in a Free Renaissance style.

The exterior is three storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical facade of three windows. There is a cornice to the ground floor, brick pilasters to the upper floors, a frieze with swags over the pilasters, a dentil cornice, and a Dutch gable to the centre. Tall panelled and corniced chimneys flank the central gable, with pedimented gables to the outer bays. The ground floor has an arcade of four round-headed windows; the first three have pulvinated aprons, and the fourth was formerly a doorway now altered into a window. There is an archway to the passage, both featuring stepped voussoirs and moulded keystones. The windows have altered glazing, and the archway has 20th-century iron gates. The first floor features three large mullion-and-transom oriels with arched centre lights, carved aprons, pulvinated friezes (the central one lettered "1890"), dentilled cornices, and balustraded parapets. The central oriel has a pedimented panel, carved and monogrammed. The second floor has mullion-and-transom windows with raised stone surrounds and central pediments with enrichment; the central pediment is semicircular. All windows include leaded stained glass in the upper lights. The attic features a cross-window in the centre and Venetian windows in the outer gables. The passage walls are faced with glazed buff terracotta tiling, with a panelled dado and blind arcading above.

The interior was not inspected.

The building forms a group with the Head Post Office to the right, The Bees Knees Public House to the right of that, number 22 opposite, numbers 12 to 20 beyond, and numbers 6, 8 and 10 further on, collectively grouped with the Church of All Saints and the War Memorial. This grouping is valued for its collective architectural and historical significance.