14, CONEY STREET (See details for further address information)

Bank and attached manager's house at 14 Coney Street and 10 New Street, York. Built in 1907 for Beckett's Bank, designed by Walter Brierley. Altered in 1994.

The building is constructed with a ground floor of sandstone ashlar and upper floors of orange-red brick laid in English bond, with rusticated quoins. Dressings and the eaves cornice are ashlar. The roof is hipped and sprocketed, covered in Westmorland slate, with stone-banded brick stacks featuring moulded stone cornices. Rainwater goods are of lead.

The Coney Street front is three storeys with five bays. The ground floor is rusticated ashlar on a moulded ashlar plinth, with recessed openings over ashlar panels between pilaster piers carrying a deep entablature with moulded dentilled cornice broken by herms. At the right end are panelled double doors beneath a moulded cornice hood on grooved scrolled brackets, with a bordered overlight above. The windows are of three lights arranged vertically, with the top two bordered. First floor windows are square bordered lights in moulded shaped surrounds with moulded cornice hoods. Second floor windows are 12-pane sashes with flat arches and moulded sills, linked by a sill band, set above raised brick aprons. A moulded eaves frieze and mutule cornice runs across the front, with an ornate rainwater head embossed with the letter B and a winged cherub head at the left end.

The corner between Coney Street and New Street is splayed and bears a painted and moulded shield of arms incorporating boar's heads and the motto 'PRODESSE CIVIBUS'.

The New Street front is three storeys with five bays, reproducing the Coney Street front without the doorway. To the left is a wing of two storeys with attics, containing six bays arranged 2:2:2, with the centre bays projecting. The centre bays on the ground floor of the wing are of rusticated ashlar, with round-arched openings of radiating voussoirs containing a door of six fielded panels beneath a fanlight, and a small-pane sash window beneath a moulded cornice. Windows in the flanking bays and at first floor right are 12-pane sashes with stone sills and triple keyed flat arches of gauged brick. Centre bay windows are similar but smaller, with ashlar keyblocks to the brick arches and raised brick panels above. To the first floor left is a Venetian window with a 12-pane radial-glazed centre sash, carved mullions and an ashlar lintel rising over the centre light as a gauged brick arch with an ashlar triple keyblock. An ashlar sill band to the outer bay windows forms a first floor band across the centre bays. A moulded coved eaves cornice with an inverted bell rainwater head and goods at the left end completes the elevation. Segmental gabled dormers with 2-light casement windows light the attic.

The interior banking hall is lined with panelling to sill level, beneath full-height fluted Composite pilasters carrying an enriched entablature with a modillion cornice. Windows at two heights are set in eared architraves, with those at lower level pedimented or with cornice hoods, and those at upper level between bayleaf drops. Corresponding openings on the inner walls are blind and treated similarly as aedicules or panels. Two inner doorcases are panelled in eared architraves. The ceiling is heavily moulded in plaster, with an outer border of garlanded fruits and flowers, corner spandrels filled with vegetables, and a coffered saucer dome crowned by a glazed lantern, all encircled by bands of vegetables. At each end is a cartouche bordered in fruit and flowers containing a beribboned cipher.