Trustee Savings Bank

The Trustee Savings Bank, located on Church Street in Preston, is a bank building dated 1905, constructed for the Preston Savings Bank. It features sandstone ashlar on a plinth of polished pink granite, with the roof likely concealed by slate. The building is a long rectangular block with a front range that runs parallel to the street, designed in the Baroque style. It has two storeys and is arranged in a symmetrical layout with 1:4:1 bays. The ground floor is treated as rustic, while the first floor is designed as a piano nobile, complete with a moulded plinth, modillioned cornice, and a balustraded parapet.

The central four bays feature channelled rusticated piers and large cross-windows on the ground floor. The first floor has blocked pairs of Ionic columns, large round-headed two-light casement windows with glazing bars, fanlights with radiating glazing bars, keyed architraves, and small balustraded segmental balconies. The central pier of the ground floor shows marks from former attached lettering that read "PRESTON SAVINGS BANK." There is also a foundation stone in the plinth, inscribed to commemorate its laying by W.P. Park, Chairman of the Trustees, in October 1905.

The end bays of the building project slightly forward and also have channelled rustication on both floors. Each end bay features a round-headed doorway on the ground floor with rusticated voussoirs and a carved keystone, along with a doorcase made of granite-blocked Tuscan columns topped with a sandstone entablature and an open-segmental pediment. These doorcases are adorned with decorative wrought-iron gates and fanlights, although the latter are mostly obscured by modern signage. On the first floor, there is a 12-pane sashed window with a triple keystone, a pedimented architrave, and a small balustraded balcony. At the parapet level, there is a segmental pediment that contains a cartouche with swags.

Inside, the banking hall boasts a richly decorated coffered ceiling featuring an egg-and-dart frieze, folated modillions, massive beams supported by foliated consoles, and geometrical-patterned moulded plaster decoration in the panels.