Church Bank

Church Bank comprises a reflected pair of 2½-storey late Georgian houses at 28-30 Church Street, forming a grade II listed group.

No 28 is pebble-dashed, while No 30 has been scraped to reveal rubble stone with flat stone arches. Both share a slate roof with roughcast end stacks; a pebble-dashed stack stands right of centre and a brick stack left of centre. The entrances are offset to the outer sides. No 28 has a recessed panelled door with panelled reveals and tripartite overlight. No 30 features a 19th-century replacement panelled door set in a shallow gabled porch canopy with barge boards. The outer bays contain tripartite small-pane sash windows in both storeys. The wider inner bays are gabled, with small-pane horned tripartite sash windows in the lower storey, a 12-pane horned sash serving a first-floor canted oriel window, and a small round-headed sash window with radial glazing in the attic. Above No 30's entrance is a square stone tablet carved with a low-relief Celtic cross.

Between the two houses runs a passage beneath a flat stone arch, above which sits a large bullseye window with rock-faced dressings and radial glazing. Although externally belonging to No 30, this window has an interlocking plan internally. No 30 has a 2-light flat roof dormer to the left, while No 28 has a larger 3-light flat roof dormer to the right.

The rear elevations are reflected 3-window compositions with significant additions and alterations. No 28 is whitened rubble. Its central stair window is a 12-pane hornless sash. To the left is a 16-pane sash window and a lean-to structure against the garden wall, first appearing on the 1861 town plan, containing a pantry and coal house at the back of the kitchen. This lean-to has 2 boarded doors and 2 casement windows. On the right of the stair is an added hipped lean-to with a 12-pane sash window. The upper storey contains a 16-pane sash window to the left, a 4-pane horizontal sliding sash window right of centre, and a 12-pane sash window set back on the right. A central wide flat roof dormer has a 4-light replacement window.

No 30 exhibits similar arrangement but with greater alteration. Its central stair window has been replaced by French doors opening into a lean-to conservatory, beyond which stand a 16-pane sash window in the lower storey and a 12-pane hornless sash above. On the left of the stair is a replacement half-glazed back door. Further left, set back, are 12-pane sash windows in each storey and a smaller 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash window over the passage. The attic contains 2 horizontal-sliding small-pane hornless sashes serving flat roof dormers, plus an added skylight. A 2-storey rear wing on the right houses a kitchen in its lower storey, with a panelled door to the left under a 4-pane overlight and a 20-pane hornless sash window to the right. The upper storey has a small-pane canted oriel window on corbels. Further right is a 1-storey projection containing pantry and coal house, and a further projection behind with 2-light windows and a boarded door in the end wall, all beneath a pent slate roof.

The interior follows a central plan with an entrance hall leading to main rooms on right and left, and stairs at the rear. The left-hand room retains panelled wainscot. The open-well stair features plain balusters.