No. 41, LOWGATE

No. 41 Lowgate is a building of group value, originally the National Provincial Bank, constructed in 1900 and designed by Brodrick, Lowther and Walker. Late 20th-century alterations have occurred. The building is built of ashlar, with a granite plinth and has hipped and gabled slate roofs, along with two ridge and a single side wall coped ashlar stacks. It features a plinth, sill bands, a ground-floor cornice, and a modillion main cornice. The building is three storeys high plus attics, with a 4x3 window arrangement. It occupies a corner site with an angled facade. The windows are mainly casements with stone mullions or transoms.

A prominent angled entrance bay on the corner of the site incorporates, on the first floor, two small windows separated by a relief panel flanked by pilasters with foliate capitals. Above these, a three-light mullioned window is surmounted by a carved lintel, itself flanked by tall pilasters with flat caps. A coped gable incorporates a single window flanked by paired pilasters, with a relief panel above it. The entrance itself is defined by octagonal Doric columns supporting a swan-neck pediment with a latticework tympanum, framing a plain doorcase with panelled double doors.

The left front (facing Lowgate) features a projecting, off-centre bay flanked by tiers of pilasters and topped by a coped gable. The first floor has three windows above a carved relief band, with a further three similar windows above that, separated by a band of differing design. The gable itself contains a three-light mullioned window. To the right of this, on the first floor, is a three-light mullioned window with pilasters and shaped brackets to an arched pediment, followed by a single window with similar pilasters and a segmental pediment. Above the cornice, two hipped dormers are present. To the left is a recessed bay with a single-light window on the upper floors and a hipped dormer. The ground floor window arrangement comprises two large three-light mullioned windows, flanked to the right by a single window and to the left by a doorway with flanking pilasters and an arched, dentillated pediment.

The right front (facing Scale Lane) exhibits similar detailing. A three-light mullioned window with an arched pediment is positioned to the right on the first floor, accompanied by two single windows with segmental pediments to its left. Above, two single windows and a lower section with a hipped roof and a box dormer are present. A hipped dormer is located above the cornice. Two large three-light mullioned windows are at ground floor level.