Former Bank

This is a former bank building, dated 1896, designed by Messrs. Wood and Kendrick, with an early 20th-century addition to Coventry Street. The building is constructed of red brick with buff terracotta dressings, and has a slate roof concealed by parapets. It occupies a corner site, displaying an L-shaped plan. The architecture is an elaborate Free Style.

The building is three storeys high, with a three-window front to each street, and a canted corner. A moulded plinth runs throughout. The corner entrance has elaborate 10-panelled double doors with a fanlight obscured by a late 20th-century sign. Above the doors is an elaborately moulded round arch with a dentil cornice and bosses; the spandrels feature cartouches displaying the date. Slender shafts rise from the arch's springing to the second floor. Putti and foliage spring from the ornamented keyblock, supporting a shallow curved balcony with a cartouche and leaf and scrollwork. A basket-arched tripartite window sits above the balcony. The arch's spandrels are decorated with roundels and foliage. A strongly-moulded string course runs around the facade. Paired round-arched plate glass sash windows feature on the second floor, with ornamented shafts, moulded arches, and decorated keyblocks. Leaf corbels and half-octagonal wall shafts are present at the springing of these arches. The elaborate parapet features dentil, modillion, and moulded cornices.

The frontages along Bridge and Coventry Streets are similar to the corner, although slightly simpler in design. The ground floor is characterised by banded rustication and segmental-arched wood cross windows with Ionic half-column mullions and ornamented arches. A late 20th-century glazed door has been inserted into the first bay on the left side of Bridge Street. A lower and plainer addition is situated on the right. This addition is three storeys high and has a four-window front. An eight-panelled door, with a decorated doorcase featuring pilasters, festoons, a scrolled pediment, and a cartouche on the central panel, provides access. The ground floor has two cross windows and a single light on the left. The first floor has tripartite windows with blind tympana, and a segmental-arched single light. The second floor features plate glass sash windows.