Bank House, Bridgelands Cottage, Greenhays Cottage And National Westminster Bank

This is a house, now a row of houses and a bank, dating back to the 15th century, with alterations and a facade from the late 18th or early 19th century. It is timber-framed, with the left end of the ground floor built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, the rest of the building using red and grey brick, also in Flemish bond. The first floor is tile-hung, and the roof is covered with tiles, possibly indicating a Wealden origin. The building originally comprised an open hall, with a storeyed bay to the right end and likely to the left.

The building has a brick plinth towards the centre, and a stone plinth to the right. The steeply pitched roof is gabled to the left and hipped to the right, with a brick ridge stack towards the left end. The windows are irregularly placed, consisting of four three-light casements, one to the left and three to the right of the stack. Three of the ground floor windows on the right have segmental heads. The former bank window has a plain frieze. A ribbed door leads to the bank on the left, while a door with flush panels, two top lights, a segmental head, and a flat bracketed hood serves as the entrance to Bank House in the centre. A similar panelled door with a flat bracketed hood is located at Bridgelands, between the first and second windows from the right, and a half-glazed door leads to Greenheys Cottage in a short, gabled timber-framed rear wing to the right.

The interior was only partly inspected. A moulded and brattished beam is visible at the right end of the hall. There is a four-centred arched doorhead with hollow spandrels to the rear wall of the hall, along with an axial beam and broad, closely-set joists in the right end bay. The roof is supported by a crown post.