Bank Street, 37, 37A

Later 19th century. 3-storey, 2-bay, L-plan purpose-built retail premises with residential accommodation to upper floors. Segmental arched openings; prominent gabled upper breaking eaves windows. Coursed snecked and stugged blonde sandstone; stugged and droved quoins; coursed whinstone rubble to rear. Base course; moulded string course at 1st floor and band course running through to adjacent building to left; banded eaves course with projecting corbel stops between openings. Raised smooth architraved margins with chamfered arises and stone cills. Some mid-20th century openings to rear.

Larger 3-bay arcaded shopfront to left; door flanked by timber framed plate glass windows; 2-bay arcaded shopfront to right, part-glazed door and timber plate glass window. 1- over 2-pane timber sash and case windows with vertical astragals to lower sashes. Slate roofs; flat lead ridge section; stone skews; gableted skewputts; chamfered corniced ashlar end stacks with octagonal clay cans; decorative box profile cast-iron gutters to eaves band course between windows collecting to lower gutter and cast-iron downpipe; decorative square hoppers. Wrought-iron finials. Former brick outside toilet to rear.

INTERIOR: 20th century shop fittings. Original rear stair to upper floors (formally one dwelling). Good later 19th century decorative scheme in place; high quality maple leaf cornice and ceiling rose to principal room; ornate marble fire surrounds.