13-16 Market Place

13-16 Market Place is a former bank constructed around 1876 to the designs of Frederick William Albury of Albury and Brown.

The west-facing street elevation is built of ashlar Bath Stone, embellished with pink granite and Portland Stone detailing. The slate roof covers the street-facing portion of the building. Later extensions to the rear are of red brick and render.

The building comprises a main three-storey block facing the street, with projecting outer bays. Behind this (to the east) are a series of rectangular one- and two-storey extensions.

The principal, street-facing elevation exhibits Italianate proportions and details, with corner pilasters framing the outer bays on each storey. Ground-floor entrances are recessed within rusticated concave jambs and topped with fan-shaped overlights. Pilasters with pink granite shafts and geometric circular capitals frame the doorways, supporting heavy entablatures which also act as the cills for the first-floor windows. The central bay of the ground floor features two round-headed windows set into channelled rustication. First-floor windows are tripartite plate-glass sashes with decorative lintels and side pilasters featuring relief panels and foliate capitals. The central bay’s windows support a richly decorated entablature and have stone pilaster mullions. The second storey continues the tripartite plate-glass window pattern, with paired sashes in the centre bay set into architraves. The outer bays' pilasters repeat the circular motif of the ground floor, and are topped with enriched lintels. The building culminates in a heavy modillion cornice supporting a Portland Stone balustrade with ball finials at the corners of the outer bays. The east-west sloping roof has three skylights just below the ridge. The rear (east) elevation’s first and second floors are red brick with two and three bays of windows respectively. The rear of the building features one- and two-storey, 20th-century extensions, mostly with felt roofing; the north elevation of these extensions is white-rendered.