1 And 3, Nessgate

Nos. 1 and 3 Nessgate is a bank and attached manager's house, now functioning as a shop. It was built in 1839 and features late 20th-century alterations. The building was designed by JB and W Atkinson for the Yorkshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank.

The bank has a ground floor made of rusticated sandstone with vermiculated quoins, while the upper floors are constructed of ashlar with chamfered quoins. The doorcases are made of marble, and there are other ashlar dressings. The hipped slate roof has red brick stacks. The manager's house is built from grey-cream mottled brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings that have been patched in render, and features a moulded eaves cornice and a slate roof with a brick stack.

The exterior has a three-storey, three-window front facing Nessgate, with a lower three-storey, three-window range to the right. The bank entrance on the left consists of a glazed door set back in a pedimented doorcase, topped with a round-headed overlight. To the right, there are two round-headed fixed light windows that are set back in round-arched openings with radiating voussoirs, supported by rusticated pilasters with moulded bases. A moulded impost band runs across the tops of the windows as transoms. A window sill band serves as a plinth for defaced rusticated panels, and there is a moulded cornice at the ground floor.

On the first floor, the windows have bracketed cornice hoods, with the center window featuring a pediment. These windows have six-pane upper sashes and one-pane lower sashes. The sill band on moulded consoles is interrupted beneath the center window by a mutilated balcony flanked by carved swags. The second floor has squat six-pane sashes in raised lobed surrounds. The building features a moulded eaves frieze and a bold cornice on heavy consoles.

The ground floor openings in the range to the right have been altered to tall fixed windows beneath a shallow cornice on plain pilasters with moulded imposts. The first-floor windows mirror those of the bank front, while the second-floor windows are unequal nine-pane sashes with stone sills, all topped with flat arches of brick. The moulded eaves cornice sits beneath a low parapet. The bank front facing High Ousegate is similar to that on Nessgate. The interior has not been inspected.