9 Town Hall Street (formerly the Town Hall later used as a Lloyds Bank)

The building at 9 Town Hall Street, Sowerby Bridge, originally served as a town hall and was later used as a bank. Constructed in 1857 by Perkin & Backhouse for the Sowerby Bridge Town Hall Company, it is designed in the Italianate style.

The main building is two storeys high and has three bays. It fronts onto Town Hall Street and features tall, round-arched openings. The central bay has a large, triple-light window on each floor, with strip pilasters rising to consoles that support cornices. The first-floor window is enhanced with a full-width balcony and a segmental pediment above the central light. The flanking bays project slightly forward and have rusticated quions, with the ground floor quions being punch-dressed. Each flanking bay originally had an architraved doorway with keystones; the doorway on the left (west) has been altered to a window. The first-floor windows in these bays are similar to the central window but also have segmental pediments and extended cills, all supported by consoles. A modillioned cornice supports a balustraded parapet, with vase finials marking the outer bays. An end stack is located on the east side, and another between the western two bays.

Attached to the west is a rounded, two-stage corner tower. The lower stage of the tower is the same height as the main building and has a blind ground floor with banded rustication. The first floor features a Venetian window with a ballustraded cill supported by consoles, with Tuscan engaged columns separating the lights and supporting a cornice with a segmental pediment. A modillioned cornice continues from the main building, with a balustraded parapet topped by an elaborate festoon. The upper stage rises above this to a cornice supporting Ionic pilasters, dividing the tower into six faces. Each face contains a round-arched niche with an elaborate architrave and a carved head as a keystone. The southwest-facing niche includes a clock face within a decorated surround. The other niches have two-light openings with colonnettes and carved tympanums, filled with decorative iron grilles. Above the niches is a dentil cornice that supports a ribbed, stone-built dome, divided into six panels by pilasters rising from shaped brackets, and topped by a finial.