Former Belfast Bank, 64 Toberwine Street, Glenarm, Ballymena, Co Antrim, BT44 0AP

This is a small, compact one-and-a-half storey former bank building, constructed in 1935 for the Belfast Banking Company at the corner of Toberwine Street and Vennel Street in Glenarm. It has a vague stylised Neo-Jacobethan character, though it is not considered to be of particular architectural interest. It currently serves as a jewellery workshop and shop, and sits within a conservation area.

The west and south facades are finished in what appears to be reconstituted stone, with an eaves course and a bevelled plinth. The main roof is slated. Cast iron gutters and square downspouts discharge into decorative cast hopper heads, and the downspout to the front is recessed.

The front (west) elevation is asymmetrical. To the right is a half-glazed double door with a large square four-pane fanlight above, the door and fanlight sitting within a tall, shallow recess. To the left are two large window recesses, each with deep chamfered sills and recent four-pane timber frames with hopper openers. Above the windows, within each recess, is a blank panel. At the centre of the upper level is a vaguely Flemish semicircular gable half-dormer with a small window at its centre fitted with a recent frame. The half-dormer has a coping.

The south elevation is gabled in a slightly Tudoresque fashion, set back from the pavement behind a low wall with wrought iron railings enclosing a small paved area. To the left of centre on this elevation are two windows within recesses, similar in form to those on the front but with the windows set slightly higher within their recesses. At first-floor level, centred within the gable, are two small narrow windows with recent two-pane frames in recesses of the same type. Between ground and first floor runs a fine moulded string course. The south gable has a Tudoresque gabled parapet with a coping. To the far right of the south elevation is a low single-storey flat-roofed extension set back approximately 200mm from the main elevation, with two evenly spaced windows fitted with recent-looking frames. To the right side of this extension, a rainwater outlet discharges into a decorative hopper head.

Views of the rear elevation are partially obscured by an outhouse and the return of the adjoining property. At the rear there is a storey-and-a-half lean-to return whose roof merges with the main roof at a shallower angle; this extension obscures the right-hand side of the east face of the rear of the bank and overlaps slightly with the rear of the neighbouring property at number 62. At the centre of the rear roof is a small windowless gabled dormer. To either side of this are cast iron skylights — one to the left and two to the right. To the east is a tall single-storey flat-roofed extension of the same width as the lean-to, which completely obscures the east wall of the lean-to. Attached to the east face of this tall flat-roofed extension is a further lower flat-roofed extension, which has two modern grilled windows to its east face and a plain metal-sheeted door to its north face. Between the north wall of the tall flat-roofed extension and the return to the rear of number 62 is a low flat-roofed infill extension. The rear elevation is finished in plain painted render.

The bank was built by the Belfast Banking Company in 1935, most likely replacing an earlier banking premises that appears to have operated from the neighbouring three-storey house since a branch was established in Glenarm in 1918. After 1935, that house served as the bank manager's residence. In 1970 the Belfast Banking Company was acquired by the Midland Bank and merged with the Northern Bank. The Glenarm branch remained in operation until around 1990.

Toberwine Street — whose name translates as "Street of the Sweet Well" — is thought to represent the original area of settlement within the village of Glenarm. Its narrowness is considered to hint at its antiquity. The original 13th-century castle of Glenarm, around which the village developed, is believed to have stood at the south-west corner of the street, on the site now occupied by the former courthouse. The castle was deliberately destroyed by Sorley Boy MacDonnell in 1597 and was apparently not repaired; his descendant Sir Randal McDonnell built a new residence on the other side of the river. Some historians suggest the old castle was occupied by tenants in the later 17th century, though Richard Dobbs made no reference to it in his 1683 description of the village. The first mention of "Toberwine" in the Antrim Papers appears in a lease of November 1672, with "Toberwine Street" named in a lease of August 1709. On John O'Hara's 1779 map of Glenarm — the earliest surviving plan of the village — the street is shown fully developed on both sides, with the market and courthouse at its south-west end. There is no verifiable indication of any remains of the old castle on the map, but a remark in the 1835 Ordnance Survey Memoirs referring to "the foundations of a very extensive old castle which stood at the centre of the town until a few years ago" suggests ruins may have survived into the early 19th century. The 1833 valuation indicates that most of the buildings now visible on the west side of the street were present in some form at that date and were probably of 18th-century origin. The east side of the street saw considerably more development after 1833, with numbers 4 to 12 dating from around 1840 and numbers 20 to 34 and 62 from after around 1860, some of the latter replacing modest single-storey dwellings. There is some evidence that the large three-storey former Antrim Arms Hotel, and possibly its neighbour number 56, may have been standing in the early 1830s, though this is not certain.