Prudential Building

This is a three-storey shop and office building constructed in 1913 by Paul Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Company. It is built of limestone ashlar with a green slate roof and is in the Edwardian Baroque style.

The building has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, with the central bays projecting. The ground floor features a 20th-century shop front within the original wide, segmental-arched opening, which includes a scrolled keystone and brackets supporting a small first-floor balcony. Flanking doorways have architraves, bracketed dosserets, and dentilled open pediments above circular windows with glazing bars, complete with elaborate carved keystones featuring festoons, ribbons, and fruit. An original panelled door remains on the right-hand side; the former entrance on the left has a 20th-century window inserted.

A string course separates the floors. The central section is characterised by deeply recessed windows, with a projecting panel containing a balconied first-floor window beneath a carved cartouche and segmental hood. Geometric wrought-iron balustrades adorn both balconies. Blind balustrades are present beneath the second-floor windows in bays two and four. Full-height panels containing windows with bead-and-reel moulded reveals and raised panels between floors are present in the outer bays. Almost all of the windows are 20th-century two-light casements, with the exception of the dormers. A central entablature features raised gold lettering spelling out "PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED," alongside a modillioned cornice and blocking course. The side bays have coped parapets with blind balustrades to flat-roofed dormers, which have cross windows and glazing bars. A similar four-light mullioned and transomed dormer is located centrally. Coped gables and end stacks complete the exterior.

The interior features panelled doors in architraves, moulded cornices, and an open-well staircase around the lift shaft.