The Old Bank and Bank House with front railings

The Old Bank and Bank House with front railings

Bank House is a two-storey building constructed in local stone rubble brought to course with ashlar dressings, fronting onto the High Street. Its principal south elevation presents a symmetrical composition of three bays in Tudor style. The centrepiece is a cambered arched doorway with boarded door beneath a stepped square label. On either side stand chamfered stone mullioned windows of four lights with metal casements featuring diamond leaded panes, topped with labels. The first-floor windows are all of two lights; the outer windows are set within coped gabled dormers with labels and wrought iron finials. The roof is clad in plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses, with coped gables and a stone chimney stack to the left-hand end.

To the west stands the single-storey former bank, now called The Old Bank, which was converted from a former cottage. It is built of matching materials with a stone slate roof and exposed rafters. Its front south elevation projects slightly beyond Bank House and features an entrance to the left-hand bay and a four-light transomed window with metal casements of leaded lights to the right. Both openings are topped with hoodmoulds and labels.

The rear north elevation of Bank House shows a central doorway with a pointed-arched surround. To the right is a bay window with timber sashes, appearing to be a late 19th or early 20th-century addition. The left-hand bay contains timber casements with leaded glass on both floors, the ground-floor window set under a segmental head. The remaining first-floor windows have ashlar surrounds with mullions to both two-light casements. At right angles to the main range is a single-storey range of several phases, built of stone rubble under a roof of double Roman tiles. The rear of The Old Bank is obscured by an early 21st-century two-storey addition. A re-built chimney stack stands to the rear of The Old Bank.

Bank House has undergone some reconfiguration with the removal of a partition wall, but retains mid- to late-19th-century fittings including skirting boards, picture rails, shutters and architrave to various rooms, as well as the original staircase. Doors are modern replacements. Some fireplaces have been blocked, though a late-19th-century stone fireplace in one rear room survives with carved foliate decoration to the spandrels and chamfered jambs. The roof retains the principal rafters and angled struts. The first-floor rooms were not inspected.

The entrance to the former office in The Old Bank is through a timber and glazed entrance lobby. The original doorways that provided access between the two buildings have been blocked but remain visible in the party wall. The room retains a stone fire surround with chamfered jambs and recessed spandrels. High in the wall on either side of the fireplace are two blocked windows. The ceiling beams, understood to be steel with applied veneer, are supported on carved stone corbels.

To the front of Bank House, extending across the full frontage, stand cast-iron railings set on a shallow stone base. They consist of alternate thin collared spikes and fleurs-de-lys spikes with a matching pair of gates opposite the door, featuring quatrefoil panels to the base of each.

A mid-20th-century single-storey addition was made to the rear of Bank House. The Old Bank has an early-21st-century rear extension of two storeys.