Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank

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ST 2224 SE 11/105

UPPER HIGH STREET (south side) No 1, Somerset and Wilts Savings Bank

4.6.52.

GV II Premises of an early local bank, established 1817, present building is probably later. Main front is three storeys. Stucco, rusticated ground floor under stringcourse. Deep cornice with parapet raised in centre to take clock. Three windows, architrave surrounds, cornices over 1st floor windows. Sashes with glazing bars. Subsidiary facades face east and south on to Vivary Park. Dignified building in an important position at the end of High Street and beside the entrance gates to Vivary Park.

Nos 1 to 14 (consec) Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street form a group together with the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn and Mary Street House in Mary Street, and Wilton House and ornamental column in Hammets Walk.