50 and 51 Market Place

This is a former bank, built in 1900, now converted into a restaurant and café. The building is of red brick and ashlar stone, with a plain tile roof. It is a three-storey building with an attic, and is understood to be internally connected to adjacent buildings.

The building is constructed in a Flemish style. The north elevation, facing Market Place, has a granite ground floor with three central bays of fixed, swept-head windows. Flanking these bays are two doorways. The western doorway has a rusticated doorcase with brackets supporting a dentilled semi-circular pediment, incorporating a tympanum reading 'BANK' in gilt, Art Nouveau lettering. The eastern doorway is similar in style to the swept-head windows. Both doorways retain their original elaborately-carved timber doors.

The first floor has plate-glass sash windows arranged in a 2:4:2 pattern, designed to appear as mullion and transom windows through the use of external ashlar stonework. A lintel separates the first floor windows from those on the second floor, which are arranged in a 1:4:1 configuration. Pilaster strips separate these windows, terminating in a second lintel with contrasting bands of gauged brick and ashlar. A modillion cornice sits above the second floor, leading to a false parapet topped by a moulded eaves cornice.

The north elevation includes a Flemish gable projecting into the steeply pitched roof. This gable has a central bay of four windows topped by an arch of contrasting ashlar and gauged brick, and features an ashlar cartouche bearing carved insignia. Large chimney stacks flank the roof. A flat roof extends over the rear, south section of the building, continuing the flat rooflines of neighbouring properties. The rear elevation appears to be a later 20th-century reconstruction matching the rear elevations of adjacent buildings.

Internally, the building is connected to 3-5 King Street, sharing its function as a bar and restaurant. Upper floors are also connected to 53 Market Place, providing shared office space.