40 and 42 High Street

40 and 42 High Street is a former bank, now used as commercial premises, likely built in the mid-19th century with later alterations.

The building features a ground floor made of limestone ashlar, with rendered upper levels and stone dressings, axial chimney stacks, and a slate mansard roof. It has a double-depth rectangular plan that is slightly skewed to the south.

Designed in an Italianate style, the building stands three storeys tall with an attic. The symmetrical front elevation has six windows on each storey, although two are blocked on the second floor. The ground floor has been refaced in limestone ashlar, with paired pilasters in each bay and a shallow panel in the center. Each window has a sunken apron panel below it, and there is an entablature and cornice above. Stone steps lead up to the outer round-arched doorways, each featuring a panelled door and fanlight. The first floor showcases a round-arched arcade with archivolts connected by an impost band, with each arch filled by a plate-glass sash window. The second floor includes a cill band, deep cornice, and blocking course, with windows that are three-over-six-pane sashes. The attic has four dormers with two-over-two-pane sash windows. The rear elevation is partly rendered, with exposed red brick on the upper floors. The windows here are six-over-six sashes beneath segmental heads, and there is a central double-height projecting entrance that forms a staircase tower.

In the late 20th century, the building was extended at right angles to the rear to create parking and additional office space.

The interior is largely remodelled, but the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England noted some original features, including joinery and a right-hand open-well stair with alternate rods and turned balusters.