National Westminster Bank

Bank building, formerly two buildings, painted stucco with ashlar neo-classical ground floor. Main building of 3 storeys and attic, 2 bays, has parapet, slate roof with red brick end stacks and centre hipped dormer. Quoins to upper floors. Two 12-pane sashes to top floor, 2 shallow bow windows on first floor, 4-12-4-pane sash windows. Ground floor bank frontage in white (?Portland) stone is of 5 bays with entablature and cornice. Four attached columns with finely-detailed anthemion capitals and 2 matching square pier responds. The bays have small-paned metal windows with narrow marginal panes, 15-pane to 3 centre bays, with ashlar sills and panels below, 6-pane overlights to outer bays with sills over fielded-panelled 4-panel doors. Plinth and stone steps to doorways. The narrow one-bay house to right has parapet, cornice and 2 string courses, the lower one over a band. Three floors, the top 2 with 12-pane sashes and hoodmoulds, the ground floor has low C20 tripartite sash 3-9-3-pane with hoodmould. This building was in 1977 of the same size but 4 storeys with first floor oriel window and ground floor shopfront.

Rear staircase with stick balusters in 4 flights with scrolled tread ends and late C19 newels with finials.