First Trust Bank, 8 High Street, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, BT78 1BH

An attached three-storey classically detailed stone bank, five-openings wide, built c.1925 to designs by Morris and Kavanagh, located to the north side of High Street. Rectangular on plan, facing south; full-height extension to west, full-height return to rear, modern lift shaft extension to rear (of no interest), modern single- and two-storey addition to rear. Parapet-concealed roof (roofs remodelled), replacement metal downpipes visible to rear. Walling is ashlar limestone over splayed plinth with modillioned-entablature supporting a cement-rendered parapet; ground floor has dentilled-entablature rising to first floor sill-course. Windows are square-headed painted timber 1/1 sashes, moulded limestone architraves with keyblocks, moulded sills. Principal (south) elevation is eight openings wide (those three openings to left are the extension); right end has a three-window-wide centre flanked by single-opening-wide breakfronts to each side. Ground floor centre has Roman Ionic columns between windows; breakfronts ground floor to right has a square-headed transomed multi-light timber casement window (former carriage arch) and left end has square-headed replacement varnished timber door with multi-light overlight, splayed limestone reveals flanked by Roman Ionic pilasters supporting an open triangular pediment (cartouche within pediment has Munster and Leinster monogram of “M & L”). First floor windows have pediments over (alternating between triangular and segmental arched with triangular at ends, extension first floor has only triangular pediments). Extension detailed as principal elevation, ground floor is ashlar, square-headed carriage arch with modern varnished timber panelled double doors to left and ATM insertion to right. Extension west gable is completely abutted by adjoining building, rear elevation is rendered and windows do not have any architraves; single window to second floor left and two diminished windows to first floor. West gable is completely abutted by extension. Rear (north) elevation is abutted to left end by return, to right by lift shaft (of no interest) and entirely to first two floors by additions (of no interest). Rear elevation windows do not have any architraves. Exposed section is detailed as rear of extension, second floor has two windows between return and lift projection (that to left is diminished) over three windows (with metal grilles). Return has single second floor window over two windows (with metal grilles), cheeks are blank. East gable is detailed as principal elevation and is abutted by adjoining building to right end. Exposed section is blank. Setting:- Bank is set back from High Street by concrete pavement with tarmac parking lot to rear enclosed by high rendered boundary wall accessed via carriage arch under extension. Roof: Parapet-concealed roof (roofs remodelled in 1990) Walling: Limestone Windows: Timber RWG: Metal