72 And 74, Fore Street

72 and 74 Fore Street is a bank building, now used as offices, dating from the late 19th century, before 1890, with some 20th-century alterations. The front is made of yellow sandstone ashlar, while the rear is constructed from grey-brown brick laid in Flemish bond. The building features Welsh slated roofs above a wide, moulded cornice with modillions at the front, a hipped end to the rear outshut, and tall grey-brown brick chimneystacks.

The exterior consists of three storeys with a two-storey rear outshut and a four-bay front elevation in the Italianate style. The first floor has four plate-glazed sash windows set in projecting architrave surrounds, with the outer windows featuring moulded consoles and cornice hoods, as well as panelled aprons and pilasters below. The inner windows are adorned with carved consoles and garlands. Above the windows are carved foliated panels, and below the cornice is an eaved segmental pediment. The first-floor level has a modillioned cornice above the fascia.

On the second floor, there are four plate-glazed sash windows with segmental heads and moulded architrave surrounds, featuring projecting keyblocks, a projecting band above, and projecting sills carried on consoles with cast-iron fretted frontals. The ground floor is rusticated, with three recessed plate-glazed sash windows beneath segmental arches and projecting apron panels. To the right, there is a doorway with hardwood panelled double doors below a rectangular fanlight, featuring rusticated voussoirs with a vermiculated keyblock and a vermiculated plinth course.

The long narrow outshut has 20th-century steel French windows and casements on the first floor, below a brick soldier arch, while the ground floor features a 19th-century triple sash, plate-glazed, beneath a slightly cambered rubbed brick arch.

Inside, the ground floor, which was formerly the banking hall, has been stripped of its original fittings and subdivided.