Bedford House, Bank Buildings

Bedford House, located in Bank Buildings, is a house built around 1810-1815. It features painted Flemish bond brickwork and a slate mansard roof. The building has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with two windows on the front. There are flat-roofed dormers, one containing a 16-pane sash window, while the other has some bars removed. Below these dormers is a full-height flat bow with plain sash windows and a dentil cornice at the top level. To the left on the first and second floors, there is a plain sash window above a six-panel door with a plain fanlight, all set within an arched opening with deep reveals and accessed by stone steps. The basement features a 20-pane sash window. To the right of the entrance, there is a lead down-pipe and hopper-head. The basement area is accessible via a flight of stone steps and is enclosed by wooden railings. The building also has a moulded cornice, a blocking course, a parapet, and a chimney stack to the right. At the rear, there is an original dormer in the slate mansard roof, above plain sash windows. Inside, there is a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and turned newels, which runs straight through an elliptical-headed opening in the lobby.