Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank

The Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank is an early local bank established in 1817, although the current building is likely from a later date. It features a three-storey main front made of stucco, with a rusticated ground floor beneath a stringcourse. A deep cornice runs along the top, with a raised parapet in the center designed to hold a clock. The façade includes three windows with architrave surrounds and cornices above the first-floor windows, and the windows are sashes with glazing bars. The building has subsidiary facades that face east and south towards Vivary Park. It is a dignified structure located at a significant position at the end of High Street, next to the entrance gates of Vivary Park.

The bank is part of a group of listed buildings that includes Nos 1 to 14 on Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park, Mount Street, the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn, Mary Street House, Wilton House, and an ornamental column in Hammets Walk.