Former Redruth District Bank and post office

The former Redruth District Bank and post office, now Redruth Civic Centre, was built in 1880 by James Hicks for Messrs. Bain, Field and Co. The interior was substantially rebuilt between 2000 and 2001.

The building is constructed primarily of granite, likely quarried from Carn Marth, with a 20th-century slate roof. The plan is roughly rectangular, decreasing in width from south to north.

The design is in a Renaissance style, featuring two storeys with a projecting cornice, an impost band, and stringcourses. The pitched roof has three stacks with terracotta pot replacements from 2000-2001, and kneelers on the gable ends. The main east-facing elevation is eight bays wide and faced in granite ashlar; the plinth and lower sections of the four doorways are faced in rock-faced granite. The bays alternate in design, with entrances in alternate bays. The southern four bays housed the former bank, and the northern four the former post office. The entrance bays project slightly and each has a round-headed doorway with stout pilasters acting as jambs, incorporating both rock-faced and fluted detailing above a central block. The door heads spring from a stringcourse and have keystones; the keystones of the first and third bays have ornamental cast-iron fanlights. The southernmost doorway is slightly wider than the others. Above each entrance on the first floor is a round-arched window with a keystone, shouldered and eared architraves and a cill band. The second bay from the south has a three-light window on the ground floor, featuring segmental-arch heads. Decorative granite corbels support a canted oriel window on the first floor. The fourth bay features a large plate-glass window with decorative ironwork, bearing the words 'Kresen Kernow’ in ironwork letters, above a tripartite square-headed window. The sixth bay has a three-light window on both levels – ground floor windows have segmental-arch heads, while the first-floor windows have square heads. The final, eighth bay has a square-headed tripartite window on the ground floor, with mullions and corbels supporting a canted oriel window. All windows are timber sashes, some of which are later replacements, and all feature horns.

The rear of the building is largely hidden by a western extension (not included in the listing). The rear elevation has square-headed windows with mullions and transoms on the first floor, plus five dormer windows to the rebuilt roof. A single round-headed window is present on the south elevation, and a series of small rectangular windows on the north elevation.

The interior suffered severe fire damage in 1982 and was subsequently rebuilt between 2000 and 2001. Some internal dividing walls appear to have survived the fire.