Bank House, 133-135 Albertbridge Road, Belfast, County Antrim, BT5 4PS

Bank House is an attached corner-sited multi-bay two-storey building with attic, built circa 1886, of red brick with a steeply pitched natural slate roof. The building occupies an irregular corner plot at the junction of Castlereagh Road and The Mount in Ballymacarret, Belfast, with a gabled corner frontispiece entrance bay set at forty-five degrees to the principal elevations.

The roof is steeply pitched with natural slate and terracotta ridge tiles. Two oversized profiled red brick chimneystacks feature cogged vertical brick courses and octagonal clay pots; a further stack to the rear has been reduced in size. Dormer windows with steeply hipped natural slate roofs and single-pane timber sash windows with timber brackets sit on the Mount Street elevation (one dormer) and the Castlereagh Street elevation (two dormers). The eaves course displays ogee-moulded cast-iron guttering, a decorative terracotta billet course below, and cast-iron downpipes. The red brick walling is laid in English garden wall bond with moulded terracotta string courses forming a frieze below eaves level and between ground and first floors. A projecting red brick plinth course runs around the base.

The ground floor features camber-headed window openings with moulded red brick surrounds and timber sash windows. The gabled frontispiece entrance bay has a steeply pitched front gable with moulded red brick barge details, a foliate terracotta panel at the apex, and a 2/2 timber sash window with flush red sandstone splayed sill above the frieze. Applied modern lettering on the frieze reads "BANK HOUSE". The first floor contains three window openings with a further slender window opening to either cheek. The tripartite Tudor-arched principal entrance is formed in red sandstone ashlar with square hood moulding. Double-leaf timber doors with four decorative panels to each are flanked by sidelights and a tripartite overlight, opening onto two granite steps.

The northeast elevation is four windows wide with a gable and three-sided canted bay at the east end and an off-centre rectangular-plan entrance porch. The gable features moulded red brick barge details and a pair of 2/1 timber sash windows on flush splayed red sandstone sills, framed by a pair of moulded and corbelled brackets. Two uPVC windows sit on the first floor. The canted bay is surmounted by a parapet wall with terracotta rosette panels and flush splayed red sandstone sills; windows here have been replaced with uPVC. The entrance porch, now blocked up, is topped by a terracotta balustrade with trefoil openings set on a corbelled cornice with stepped and moulded reveals to the former door opening; uPVC windows have been inserted to the front and cheeks. Half-height angle buttresses have gableted red sandstone capstones and brick offsets. To the easternmost bay is a square-headed stepped and moulded red brick door opening with an original flat-panelled timber door featuring bolection mouldings, brass door furniture, and a rectangular overlight opening onto two modern tiled steps.

The east side elevation is abutted by the adjacent Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church. The south elevation is abutted by a single-bay two-storey lower wing with matching detailing, featuring a paired window opening to the first floor with single-pane timber sash windows. Abutting this wing is a further two-storey red brick extension added circa 1985.

The northwest elevation is two windows wide with matching details, featuring timber sash windows to the first floor and uPVC windows to the ground floor. The north end is dominated by a slightly projecting full-height chimneystack with a squat red sandstone lateral buttress and decorative square rosette at the first floor level.

The building sits at the corner junction with a small front area to both principal elevations enclosed by a low red brick wall with moulded red brick coping and largely replacement metal railings, except to the north entrance where original wrought-iron railings remain intact.