St Swithun House

St Swithun House is a house, now a bank, dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is stuccoed and features a bracketed cornice and parapet to the roof. The building is three storeys high and has a regular five-window front with glazing bar sashes in slightly segment-headed surrounds, incorporating cills and raised keystones. A central Diocletian window is situated on the second floor, accompanied by a projecting flagpole. The central entrance is distinguished by Ionic pilasters and an entablature, a fanlight, and moulded spandrels, leading to a six-panel door.

The interior banking hall was originally two rooms. Two 18th-century fire surrounds are present; the rear one is early 18th century, featuring an eared surround with palmette and ribbonwork mouldings. A bolection moulding with acanthus decoration and a central swag sits on the cornice panel, alongside egg and dart and ribbonwork decoration. The large overmantel has an eared surround with Greek key decoration and a ropework inner surround, with a lower border exhibiting a variant of the Vitruvian scroll and palmette decoration. The fire surround facing the High Street has panelled pilasters with attenuated drops and single rows of Corinthian capitals, a frieze with palmettes, swags, and a central urn, and a corniced mantel with acanthus and ribbonwork decoration. Various fragments of 18th-century panelling are dispersed throughout the banking hall. An additional area features a columnar screen with fluted Doric columns and pilasters arranged asymmetrically. A wide, moulded segmental arch with a radiating fanlight and antae leads to a former inner door to the left of the High Street room. The cornice in a further part of the banking hall includes egg and dart decoration and profiled modillions. A spiral staircase, likely dating from the early 18th century, has early 19th-century stick balusters and a rail, with profiled cheekpieces and dado panelling.

A first-floor room at the front retains early 17th-century panelling, an early 18th-century cornice, and a fireplace of an early 18th-century type, possibly dating to the early 20th century. The stair hall contains a panelled archway with fluted doubled antae and a keyblock. First-floor rooms to the rear incorporate mid-17th-century panelling and a pair of early 18th-century eared fire surrounds with pulvinated friezes and cornice-mantels.