Trustee Savings Bank, 7 Castle Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 8AF

A prominently-located former purpose-built bank on a distinctive wedge-shaped site in central Strabane, built 1922 to designs by Henry Seaver. The building occupies an unusual triangular block at the junction of Castle Street and Castle Place, which has determined its distinctive wedge-shaped plan with a flattened frontispiece. It remains an impressive landmark representative of early-twentieth-century commercial development in Strabane.

The structure is a three-storey composition in Portland stone and red brick executed in a mannered classical style, with bold polychrome detailing. The roof is concealed behind a painted lead-covered blocking course over a moulded stone cornice with a raised section to the front incised with gold lettering reading 'Established 1824'. Rainwater goods are internal.

The ground floor features band-rusticated ashlar Portland stone with openings framed by piers supporting a plain frieze and cornice. Piers continue in banded brick and ashlar stone to frame openings on the upper floors. Banding of brick and ashlar stone provides ornamentation throughout. Ground floor openings consist of plate glass shop windows with bullnosed splayed sills. Upper floor windows are single-paned hardwood replacements: those to the first floor have ashlar mullions and transoms, whilst those to the second floor have mullions only. Upper floor window aprons are of brick.

The narrow western entrance elevation presents a flattened wedge end. The replacement entrance door is framed by plain Portland stone pilasters surmounted by a segmental pediment carried on moulded corbels, over a frieze incised with the letters 'BANK', and is accessed by two stone steps.

The first floor features a bowed bay with a cast-concrete half-domed roof containing a tripartite mullioned and transomed window. The second floor contains three closely spaced windows with a brick band above.

The north elevation displays a two-window-wide pedimented projection to the upper floors at the right end, carried on corbelled brackets that break the ground floor frieze. The first floor has two windows, each set within a double-height round-headed recess with Portland stone tympanum and having alternating brick and ashlar voussoirs with a keyblock. To the left are three further windows to each floor. The ground floor is four windows wide with a four-panelled timber door accessed by three concrete steps at the left end, with a timber panel above. The south elevation is identical to the north in reverse.

The rear elevation is abutted by a lower two-storey building; the exposed upper floor is plainly detailed in brick and is blank.

The building occupies a site previously recorded in the Town Plan of Strabane in 1908 as a licensed house occupied by James McElwain and leased from the Duke of Abercorn. The Valuation Revisions record that in 1921 this property was "pulled down and [is] site of new bank," with the bank noted as "in progress" in 1922.

Despite the loss of internal detailing, the building retains its architectural distinction and remains an impressive townscape feature. Windows are replacement hardwood with stone mullions and transoms. The building currently functions as a shop.