Bank

This is a former bank, built around 1905, and later altered in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar stone dressings, and has a flat roof concealed behind a shallow parapet. It occupies a corner site with elevations facing Frederick Street and Warstone Lane.

The street frontages each have three bays and three storeys, raised upon a deep ashlar plinth. The ground floor features rusticated ashlar with three wide, semi-circular arch-headed openings, featuring deeply-chamfered reveals and late 20th-century window frames. The first and second floor bays are articulated by wide brick piers and rusticated end pilasters. The first floor has paired six-over-nine-pane sash windows, each beneath a single keyed lintel, with the upper floor openings matching those below. A moulded eaves cornice sits beneath the shallow parapet. A half-bay extends from the rusticated pilaster, featuring a panelled door with an architrave surround and a multi-pane overlight. A splayed corner entrance has a moulded ashlar surround to the doorway, below an enriched tympanum with a hood mould and label stops. Above the doorway is a decorative panel with "BANK" in relief lettering. A sash window with an ashlar frame is present on the first floor, and an occulus is set within a square ashlar frame above. A cornice rises above the parapet. The Warstone Lane elevation mirrors the Frederick Street frontage.

The interior was remodelled in the late 20th century, but the banking hall retains moulded cornices and a central column.

The building was originally the premises of The Birmingham District and Counties Bank, established in 1889, and this branch opened on December 18th, 1905. It forms a group with the Rose Villa Tavern and the nearby clock tower. This is a well-sited and imposing bank of 1905, displaying architectural elements common to 20th-century industrial buildings in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, and helping to define the entrance to the area's core.