Former Yorkshire Bank

This is a former bank building located on High Street in Doncaster, including the adjacent 1 Scot Lane. It was originally built in 1841 by William Hurst, with a later addition constructed in 1906. The building is ashlar, with tooled detail and horizontal rustication to the ground floor. The original part is three storeys high, situated on a corner plot, with three bays facing High Street, a curved corner bay, and a single bay facing Scot Lane. A two-storey, seven-bay addition was built to Scot Lane in 1906.

The entrance is within the corner bay and features double panelled doors below a plain fanlight set within a semi-circular doorcase. This doorcase has radiating voussoirs, a moulded keystone, and an impost band. Above the entrance are four similar openings with plate-glass windows above panelled aprons to High Street, and two similar openings to Scot Lane. An entablature runs across the front, incorporating a roll-moulded stringcourse connected by the keystones, a plain frieze, and a moulded cornice. A first-floor balcony is supported by elaborate stone brackets in the three corner bays, featuring square, corniced piers and ironwork panels. The three corner bays are articulated with paired giant Tuscan pilasters on deep common plinths.

The first floor includes a full-length curved plate-glass sash above the entrance, within an eared architrave, surmounted by a dentilled segmental broken pediment on carved consoles. Similar windows are on either side, in similar surrounds, with dentilled cornices. Two similar windows are present to the left (High Street). Above are five unequally hung plate-glass sashes in eared and shouldered architraves, set on bracketed sills. An eaves band supports large corniced console brackets, which in turn support a moulded cornice and blocking course. The cornice and blocking course project over the pilasters. The 1906 addition to Scot Lane features a similar ground floor to the original section, except for bay four, which contains a semi-circular window with a dated keystone within a vermiculated surround. This is set within a pilastered surround with vermiculated banding, a foliage frieze, and a bracketed cornice.

The bays above the two leftmost bays are recessed, while the five advanced bays to the right are flanked by paired Ionic-style pilasters with shield and swag decoration to their heads. These bays contain seven unequally hung plate-glass sashes in shouldered architraves with decorated pulvinated friezes and cornices, above projecting corniced aprons. The apron to bay five is set in rusticated stonework below a shell head within an open segmental pedimented surround, supported by Ionic-style columns with a segmental balustraded balcony to the front. Plain parapets are above. Originally constructed for the Doncaster Savings Bank, it is one of the earliest banks in the country.