Old Bank House, Attached Railings, And Attached Coach House And Stable Block

Old Bank House, along with its attached railings and coach house and stable block, dates to 1711, although the front façade was extensively altered around 1775. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick with rendered dressings, a moulded cornice, and slate roofs. Brick ridge stacks are present. The L-shaped plan includes wings to the rear. It is three storeys high and consists of 1-3-1 bays, with a slight projection in the centre. The main entrance has a fielded six-panelled door with a fanlight depicting a husk garland, set within a Doric doorcase of half-columns with fluted capitals, an entablature, and a pediment. The second and fourth bays feature break-front tripartite sash windows with thin Tuscan half-columns and pilasters. The first bay contains a large rusticated rendered basket arch with flush six-panelled double doors. A 19th or 20th-century date plaque is positioned above the arch. The fifth bay has early 19th-century alterations, likely for bank or shop premises, with panelled wood pilasters and a continuous entablature enclosing a flush six-panelled door with fanlight, and two sixteen-pane sashes with a reeded wood surround. A sill course is present on the first floor. The windows on the second floor have six panes and are set within gauged brick flat arches. Central windows on the first floor have moulded surrounds, shouldered details, and a fluted entablature and cornice. The cast iron railings are of late 18th or early 19th-century origin. The coach house and stable block to the rear, dating to the early 19th century, is also of Flemish bond brick with a brick dentil cornice and a slate roof. It is two storeys high and seven bays wide, with varied bay widths. The first bay has a plank door with fanlight, the second an arched window, and a loft door with fanlight above. The third, fourth and fifth bays have large, almost round arches; the third has double doors, with a segmental-arched plank door in the fourth bay, and a later opening in the fifth. A narrow sixth bay has a round arched opening with a plank door, and the seventh is blocked. The first floor contains rendered blind circular openings, including one on the end wall. The pedimented gable has a blind lunette. The interiors were not inspected.