98, High Street Sw19

No 98 High Street is a bank building constructed in 1895, designed by architects Cheston and Perkin. It features red brick with stone dressings and has a steeply pitched tiled roof that extends to the eaves. The building occupies a corner site and showcases a Free Flemish late Gothic/Renaissance style. It stands three storeys tall with an additional roof storey and has three bays facing High Street, with an irregular return to the right and a corner turret.

The High Street facade includes a richly moulded, deeply inset round-headed doorway on the left, topped by a decorative parapet, and features a decorative wooden door. To the right on the ground floor, there is an arched window with moulded voussoirs. The first floor has two pairs of square-headed windows, while the second floor has round-headed windows with shafted jambs. The windows are sashes, and the top stage of the tower has glazing bars. A rich modillion cornice runs along the eaves. The corner turret is corbelled out at the first floor level and rises to the roof storey, adorned with richly carved bands between the rows of windows. The top stage of the turret features round-headed windows with Doric columns between them, a dentil cornice, and a copper cupola with a finial. The return of the building exhibits similar architectural treatment, and it is capped with tall stone-topped chimneys.