42, High Street

No 42 on High Street is a bank and office building for the Knaresborough and Claro Bank, constructed from ashlar with a roof that is not visible. The building is two storeys high and has seven bays, with one bay on the left and two bays on the right that are slightly recessed. The main four-bay section features vermiculated quoins, a 20th-century panelled door to the left, and round-arched sash windows with rusticated quoins, vermiculated key stones, and hood-moulds. The flanking bays have sash windows with margin lights, stone architraves, and cornices. The ground floor has rock-faced rustication below the sill band, and there is an entablature with a deep dentilled cornice at the first-floor level, along with a dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice and a balustraded parapet. The main block has end stacks with modillioned cornices and square pots featuring relief decoration of acanthus leaves. The rear of the building has 19th and 20th-century alterations, and a door on the left has the date 1858 cut into the lintel. The interior is reported to have a fine original staircase and a first-floor banking hall, which is now subdivided into offices.