8, Bank Street

No. 8 Bank Street is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, with some alterations from the mid 19th century and a few later changes. The building is constructed from stone rubble, which is rendered and lined out, and it features some slate-hung areas. The roof is slate with ridge tiles and gable ends, and there are gable end stacks with brick shafts.

The house has a two-room plan, with a large room on the right and an entrance hall leading to a large room on the left in a shallow front wing. There is a rear wing to the left that contains service rooms. The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical front that has one bay advanced to the left as a shallow front wing and two bays to the right. The entrance features a recessed doorway with pilasters, a cornice, and a flat hood, along with panelled reveals and a panelled and glazed 19th-century door.

On the ground floor to the right, there is a 19th-century single-storey canted bay with a hipped lead roof, which includes a 12-pane sash window at the front and 8-pane sashes on the sides. The first floor has four 12-pane sashes from the 19th century, with a similar sash to the left of the door. The bay to the left is slate-hung on the inner side and has a 19th-century 12-pane sash with sidelights at both the ground and first floors. The left side of the house has a stone rubble gable end.

The rear wing, which is also two storeys, has a two-room plan and is heated from an axial stack, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. The ground floor features two 19th-century 4-pane sashes and a 20th-century plank door. The first floor is slate-hung and has a 2-light 20th-century casement window. The end of the wing includes two 4-pane sashes on the ground floor and one on the first floor, with a hipped roof. The rear of the wing has two 2-light casements on the ground floor and is slate-hung on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.