58 High Street

This is a bank, built in 1866 to designs by Frederick Chancellor. In 2016, the upper floors were converted into self-contained flats. The building is constructed of red brick with Bath stone dressings, and has a slate roof.

The main part of the building is rectangular, facing south onto High Street. It has a shallow, hipped roof with tall chimney stacks at each end. A long, narrow three-storey range stands to the rear; a single-storey, flat-roofed extension added around 1970 to this rear range is not included in the listing. The ground floor and basement are now used for commercial purposes and have been extensively reordered in the 20th century.

The building is designed in an Italianate palazzo style, with five regular bays arranged over three diminishing storeys, raised on a brick plinth. A deep stone cornice with brackets runs along the eaves, returning around the sides and rear. The ground floor and basement window openings have distinctive arches made of rubbed red brick, with a curved inner and pointed outer edge. These arches have carved keystones and rest on carved stone piers supporting pairs of pilasters with capitals decorated with foliage. The ground floor arches are largely identical; however, the opening on the far left is now the main entrance, containing a six-panel double door moved from its original central location. The central bay now features a one-over-one sliding sash window matching the others. Above the ground floor is a stone cornice and fascia. The first and second floors are separated by a stone string course and a decorative brick band. Windows on these floors are two-over-two sliding sash windows set within stone architraves with detailed spiral ribbon and rope moulding. The chimney stacks, though now shorter and lacking their original flared coping stones, remain prominent.

The basement retains some original 19th-century features, including a strong room door and a staircase with square iron rod balusters. Otherwise, the visible interior fabric of the bank is of late 20th or early 21st century date. Based on photographs, the upper floor flats do not appear to retain any significant historic features.