Former Bank Chambers at The Crescent, and 7-14 The Crescent

This is a curving terrace of shops with accommodation above, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with the addition of former bank chambers built in 1900 at the eastern end.

The terrace is constructed of fair-faced brick with a Welsh slate-clad pitched roof. It comprises eight properties arranged over three storeys, each with sub-rectangular plans.

The main elevation extends for 22 bays and faces roughly north-by-north-east. Individual properties within the terrace have elevations of varying widths—two, three, or five bays—united by a continuous first-floor sill band. Windows are a mixture of two-light and multi-paned sashes, most with raised keystones and canted voussoirs. The roof is hipped at both ends and concealed behind a continuous coped parapet that returns around the side elevations. Drainage is by a mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods. Brick ridge chimney stacks are positioned over the party walls between properties.

The Former Bank Chambers

The former bank chambers occupy the eastern end of the terrace. This is a multi-aspect building with a three-storey, two-bay main elevation facing the Market Place, a three-bay side elevation facing Park Street, and an attached four-bay, two-storey former service range.

The ground floor of the main range features a painted ashlar bank frontage installed in 1900. The entrance is positioned on the left-hand side of the main elevation: a multi-panelled double door within a parapet hood doorcase. Above the doorway is a recessed rectangular panel depicting stylised dolphins flanking a scallop shell, raised on tapering Ionic pilasters with fluted consoles and recessed foliate panels. A narrower rectangular panel above the doors also shows stylised dolphins. To the right of the doorway are two two-light segmented windows with moulded imposts, keystones, panelled pilasters with capitals, and canted sills that drop below a moulded dado. Three identical windows occupy the side elevation, together with a canted bay window of similar design.

The first floor of the two-bay main elevation has a three-over-two casement window to the left and a two-light sash to the right, both with raised voussoirs and keystones, resting on a sill band. The second floor has two similar but smaller sash windows. On the three-bay asymmetrical side elevation, the first- and second-floor sash windows have canted voussoirs and gadrooned keystones. The roof gutter is hidden behind the ashlar coped parapet and drains via a pipe into a moulded rectangular storm box displaying the date 1900 flanked by florets, emptied by a cast-iron downpipe.

The four-bay service range behind the former bank chambers has a stuccoed and painted ground floor matching the bank frontage. A multi-panelled side door sits immediately left of the canted bay, within a painted flush ashlar doorcase with chamfered and stopped reveals beneath a segmental fanlight, with moulded detailing matching the bank windows. To its left is an off-set security squint window with a drip mould formed by the termination of a moulded impost band. The rest of the ground floor has two eight-over-one horned sash windows flanking a narrow six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, all with matching gadrooned keystones and canted voussoirs. The first floor has a mixture of sash windows and a blocked window position above the narrow doorway, also with gadrooned keystones and canted voussoirs. The service range has a gabled Welsh slate roof.

Number 7 The Crescent

Number 7 has an asymmetrical three-storey main elevation. The ground floor features a four-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight to the left, set within a doorcase with panelled reveals and pilasters, console brackets, and a dentilled pediment. To the right is a double-fronted late 19th- to early 20th-century shop front with plain pilasters, a painted fascia, moulded cornice, ashlar stall risers, moulded sills, large plate-glass windows, and colonettes. A central recessed doorway has a half-glazed panelled door with a rectangular fanlight and flanking windows. The three-bay first floor has a central six-light tripartite sash window flanked by two-light sashes, all on a continuous sill band. The asymmetrical second floor has two small casement windows with no window in the right-hand bay.

Numbers 8 and 9 The Crescent

Numbers 8 and 9 have identical two-bay main elevations with late 20th-century shop fronts at ground level. The first floors have matching six-over-six sash windows, and the second floors have three-over-six sashes.

Number 10 The Crescent

Number 10 has an asymmetrical three-storey, two-bay main elevation that projects slightly forward from number 9. The ground floor features a late 19th-century Arts and Crafts shop frontage with plain pilasters, console brackets, a canted fascia, and a moulded cornice. Access to the upper accommodation is via a recessed doorway at the extreme left, with plain pilasters, tongue-and-groove reveals, and a two-panel Arts and Crafts leaded stained-glass clerestory. The glazed panelled door has a large central plate-glass panel beneath two half-segmented upper panels separated by a mullion. The recessed and canted shop entrance has a diamond-set black-and-white tiled floor leading to a shop door identical to the accommodation door. The door is flanked by narrow splayed side display windows with a large plate-glass shop window to the right. These windows have painted brick stall risers, moulded sills, decorative carved colonettes with bottle-shaped plinths and vase capitals, and Arts and Crafts leaded stained-glass clerestory panels. Both the first- and second-floor pairs of six-over-six sash windows are off-set to the left, with the second-floor windows being smaller.

Numbers 11, 12, and 13 The Crescent

Numbers 11, 12, and 13 each have a two-bay elevation with windows off-set to the left, like number 10.

Number 11 has a late 19th-century double-fronted shop with plain pilasters, a modern rearward-canted fascia, and a central recessed doorway approached by a patterned tile floor. The half-glazed door has a rectangular fanlight. The splayed side and main shop windows to either side have painted plain stall risers, moulded sills, and elaborate colonettes with fluted plinths and Corinthian capitals supporting foliate spandrels. The splayed side and main windows have geometric cast-iron grilles. The first- and second-floor windows are both fitted with mid-20th-century two-over-two sashes.

Number 12 has a mid-20th-century bank front with plain pilasters, an off-set fielded three-panel door beneath a square fanlight to the left, a painted plain cement plinth, a panelled stall riser, four plate-glass windows, and a plain fascia.

Number 13 has been absorbed into number 14 and has two large 1960s plate-glass windows with a shallow riser and a deep plain fascia, continuing the modern shop window of number 14.

Number 14 The Crescent

Number 14 has a three-storey, five-bay main elevation and a two-bay side (west) elevation facing James Street. The main elevation projects forward from number 13 and is aligned differently, facing directly onto the Market Place. The 1960s plate-glass ground-floor shop window has an off-set recessed entrance on the left, a canted corner window, and a pair of windows on the side elevation with roller blinds, terminating in plain grey mosaic tiled panels. The first- and second-floor windows of the main elevation are two-light sashes with proportions similar to those elsewhere in the terrace. The two-bay side elevation has blocked window positions in the left-hand bay, a modern four-light casement on the first floor, and a six-over-six sash window on the second floor with a segmental brick head. Both windows are flanked to the right by small rectangular toilet windows. A modern glazed tile plaque in the form of a tracery lancet window is attached to the first-floor left-hand bay.