Williams And Glyns Bank

Williams and Glyn's Bank is a bank building constructed around 1892 by E. I. Hubbard for the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company. It is made of ashlar sandstone with polished Aberdeen granite columns and has a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys with attics and is situated on a corner site, featuring a curved corner bay. The facade facing High Street has five bays, while the facade facing Wellgate has six bays.

On the High Street side, there is a plinth with bases for giant Corinthian columns between each bay. The doorway in the second bay has quarter colonnettes in the jambs, and above it is a panel with raised lettering that reads 'OLD BANK / FOUNDED 1792'. This doorway is topped with a segmental pediment that includes elements of the Sheffield and Rotherham arms in the tympanum. The fifth bay features a doorway with an architrave and a plain panel beneath a consoled pediment. The first-floor band beneath the sash window in this bay has a bracketed, moulded sill and architrave. The other bays are recessed, with ground-floor casements that have bracketed sills, architraves, and pediments. There is a full entablature parapet with dies at bay intervals.

The corner bay and the bays on the Wellgate side are recessed and designed in the same style, except for the left-hand bay, which has a pedimented doorway and a paired first-floor window. The left return of the Wellgate front features earlier coursed-stone walling beneath white-glazed brickwork.

Inside, the banking hall retains a good original ceiling, and the manager's office features an 18th-century bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel. An earlier doorway was present on the left return of the Wellgate front.