Old Bank House

Old Bank House is a building located on Long Street, dating from 1625, with a structure that reflects elements from the 16th to early 17th centuries, and features early 19th-century Gothic Revival style in its front and rear elevations. The building is three stories high with a stucco front, a pebble dash plinth, and a pierced parapet adorned with Gothic arcading. The windows have four-centred heads, with two two-light windows on the second floor. The first floor features a splayed five-light oriel window on the left, which has a castellated parapet and oversailing coursed and carved spandrels below the cill. On the ground floor, there is a doorway with a four-centred moulded arch, decorated with carving in the spandrels and a hoodmould. Recesses with cast-iron Gothic scrapers are positioned in front of the doorway. To the left of the doorway is a five-light window with a dripmould, and to the right is a four-light window.

Inside, the building has moulded ceiling beams and a 17th-century staircase. The rear elevation also displays Gothic details in the same early 19th-century style. The western part of the building is covered by a rear wing, which has two bays to the east. The first bay contains a two-light window on the second floor, a three-light French casement with a balcony on the first floor, and a three-light window on the ground floor. The second bay features two-light windows and a Gothic doorway on the ground floor.

Old Bank House was originally the building of the Sherborne and Dorsetshire Bank, established in the mid-18th century, which merged with the National Provincial Bank of England in 1843. The premises, along with nearby properties including Mr. Pearson's Rose Cottage, the former Castle Hotel, The Bank House, and the National Westminster Bank, form a group with the timber-framed structure at the rear of No. 87 Cheap Street.