Old Hsbc Bank Building

The Old HSBC Bank Building, formerly known as the Midland Bank, is a former bank constructed around 1880 by J.P. Seddon for the North and South Wales Bank. It is built of coursed and squared red sandstone and features a scalloped green Westmorland slate roof with ridge cresting, showcasing a Gothic style. The building stands two storeys tall, with an advanced gable on the left and a main two-window range.

There are entrances on each side, with the right entrance set in a projecting porch topped by a parapet. This porch features an arched door flanked by engaged shafts with foliate capitals, leading to double carved doors adorned with trefoil and quatrefoil decorations. The left-hand door is set in a stressed gable supported by corbels.

The windows include two- and six-light designs, separated by single and paired shafts, and there is a ball-flower string course. The main range has a prominent five-light window on the ground floor, supported by detached shafts with foliated capitals, and two four-light windows above, treated similarly. Billet moulding is present over the windows, and there is a dormer window in the roof. A corbel table runs along the eaves, extending around the main gable and the dormer gable.

The building features axial and gable end stacks, each with four castellated shafts, and it abuts the adjacent property. This structure is noted for its imaginative and well-detailed design.