Bank House

Bank House is a pair of houses, now offices, dating to circa 1820, with later alterations. The building is constructed of pinkish-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring flat arches of red gauged brick and stone sills. The ground floor is stuccoed, while the roof is hipped and slate-covered, topped with four brick stacks having oversailing courses, three of which have decorative pots.

The main facade, facing Shaw Street, is three stories high with three first-floor windows. It includes a plinth, rustication, and a continuous cornice with triglyphs and metopes. The first floor has a central 6/6 sash window and outer 8/8 sashes; the second floor has a central 3/6 sash and outer 4/8 sashes, all set in plain reveals with sills and flat arches. The ground floor has an 8/8 sash window to the right, also with reveals and a sill. A shared, off-centre left entrance is framed by a pedimented Roman Doric porch with three-quarter engaged columns. The doors are six-panelled, featuring raised and fielded upper panels and flush beaded lower panels, within matching reveals. The overlights have margin lights, some of which are etched.

The left facade, facing Farrier Street, is also three stories high with four first-floor windows. It mirrors the Shaw Street facade with a plinth, rustication, and cornice. First floor windows are 8/8 sashes; those on the second floor are 4/8 sashes. The ground floor has a 6/6 sash, an 8/8 sash, and a tripartite 6/6 sash between two 2/2 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills, with the first and second floor sashes featuring flat arches. An off-centre left entrance is situated within a pedimented Roman Doric porch with three-quarter engaged columns. The door is four-panelled, with raised and fielded upper panels and a moulded surround. The overlight contains margin lights. The right return has a ground-floor French window, 4/8 and 8/8 sashes to the first floor, a blind opening, and further sashes on the second floor, all set in plain reveals with flat brick arches. Two round-arched staircase windows contain 6/6 sashes with radial glazing bars to the head and margin lights.

The interior retains original plasterwork in some rooms, notably a ceiling frieze with an acanthus scroll in the ground-floor left room. The plan hallway to No.6 has a cornice with shaped modillions and fleurons, incorporating an archway. An open-well staircase features a rod-on-vase balustrade. The building occupies a prominent corner site at the junction of Shaw Street and Farrier Street and is considered to be of a similar design to Nos 3 and 4 Shaw Street. Historical records suggest redevelopment in the 1840s, potentially aligning this building with that phase of development.