19, King'S Quay Street

This early 20th-century bank, now redundant, is located on King’s Quay Street, Harwich. The building is constructed of red thin Flemish-bond brickwork with stone dressings and decoration. The roofs are gabled, hidden behind parapets, with Westmorland slate on the northeast side and Welsh slate on the southwest side.

The two-storey main block has a projecting front elevation featuring a quatrefoil pierced parapet and similar bands between the storeys and above the first-floor windows. Four gabled dormers break through the parapet, connected by attached half-octagonal shafts to the stone mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor. Similar shafts are on each external corner, surmounted by crocket finials, some of which are damaged. The ground floor features three large windows with eight panes, stone mullions, transoms, and metal casements. The main entrance projects forward, flanked by octagonal shafts, and has “Bank” carved in stone sanserif letters above the doorway. A single-storey block is attached to the northwest end and has two similar windows. Elements of Art Nouveau character are visible in the wrought-iron screens in the lower third of some windows, and the moulded jambs, quatrefoil frieze, and two-light fanlight of the second entrance door, which leads to the manager's flat. The overall architectural style is Flemish/late Gothic.

The rear of the building has a two-storey flat-roofed projection with a parapeted gable extending to attic level and a large red brick stack. The interior is expensively decorated and relatively complete, with a semicircular arch on consoles leading to the manager's flat staircase. This staircase has an open well with turned hardwood balusters and newels with finials. A first-floor room contains an elaborate Adamesque fireplace, and there are three faience fireplaces contemporary with the building.