Former Birmingham Municipal Bank Trustee Savings Bank

The former Birmingham Municipal Bank, designed by T. Cecil Howitt in 1931, is a bank building constructed from Portland stone and granite ashlar, with a concealed roof. The building has a rectangular plan featuring a recessed entrance at the center of the front, which is behind a colonnade that leads to a large rectangular banking hall surrounded by offices.

The exterior showcases a monumental classical style, with the center of the north front projecting forward. It features a tetrastyle colonnade of giant Ionic columns in antis, supported by broad terminal piers and flanked by blind rusticated walls with recessed corners. The returns of these recesses have tall and narrow decorative grilles. The entablature includes a tall parapet and a blind attic set back above, adorned with a carved frieze. Behind the colonnade, there are five bays with windows featuring architraves; the ground floor windows are equipped with grilles and have roundels above them. The central round-arched doorway is framed by a moulded architrave with rosettes and features bronze doors and a fanlight grille, with ornate bronze lanterns flanking the doorway. The side elevations consist of a 1:7:1 bay arrangement, with the end bays advanced. The windows here also have moulded architraves, and those on the ground floor are topped with cornices and pediments on consoles. The tall parapet is reduced at the center to reveal round-arched attic windows.

Inside, the large banking hall is clad in polished limestone, with arcaded side walls featuring barley-twist arris mouldings on the arches and carved roundels above. The front wall includes small balconettes and grilles, and the ceiling is coffered.