Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1970. Bank, offices.
Bank House
- WRENN ID
- far-flue-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1970
- Type
- Bank, offices
- Address
- Bank House, 2 and 4, Wood Street, South Swindon
- OS grid reference
- SU 157 837
- Coordinates
- 51.55252, -1.77471
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank House is a bank and offices built in 1884, featuring brick with stone dressings. The building has three storeys and a bowed corner with three bays between rusticated pilasters, along with four bays on the left side facing Wood Street and a three-bay return on Cricklade Street. The corner includes an arched entrance flanked by partially fluted pilasters and topped with a broken ogee pediment adorned with a garland. The first floor has a central window with a shell pediment and lateral windows with moulded lugged architraves, complemented by moulded brick swags above. The windows consist of 12-pane and 8-pane sashes, while the second floor features 4-pane sashes also within moulded architraves and a pediment with an oeil de boeuf. The Wood Street elevation showcases a rusticated ground floor and end pilasters, with lugged moulded architraves, a frieze, and a cornice that includes 12-pane sashes. The second floor has 6-pane sashes and is topped with a crowning entablature. The Cricklade Street elevation mirrors that of Wood Street but includes a central elaborated datestone. The interior is not of special interest.
Local climate
Bank House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2002
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