28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 28 Clare Street is a bank building, now used as offices, constructed in 1883 by Henry Crisp. It features a limestone ashlar exterior with ashlar lateral stacks and a leaded roof. The building has a single-depth plan and stands three storeys tall, with an attic and basement. It is situated on a corner site, displaying a three-window range on the main facade, with a two-window canted corner that includes the entrance, and a five-window return on the left side.

The facade is enhanced by Corinthian pilasters with foliate panels on each floor, along with an entablature and cornices that project forward from the pilasters. The ground floor has full-height openings with richly moulded, splayed reveals and spandrels, featuring fluted, carved columns in the jambs and cartouche keys. The openings are semicircular-arched at the canted sections and at each end, with wide elliptical arches in between, supported by two mullions as jambs, and adorned with carved figures above the transoms.

The entrance is marked by a flat-headed doorway within an arch that has a moulded architrave, topped by a bayleaf panel leading to a segmental pediment with a cartouche and a plate-glass fanlight. The first and second-floor windows have recessed panelled mullions and entablatures above the semicircular-arched ground-floor openings, with tripartite windows above the elliptical arches featuring panelled mullions.

The left-hand return section includes a wide elliptical carriage arch with wrought-iron gates and semicircular-arched windows above. Dormers are decorated with foliate-panelled Corinthian pilaster jambs leading to pediments, with segmental pediments on the corner and end dormers, finials, and acroteria on the others, along with balusters in between. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes, and tall stacks flank the first left-hand dormer, featuring pilasters and a cornice.

The interior has been largely refurbished in the late 20th century and is richly decorated in an eclectic style, notable for the full-height glazing between the cornices.