HSBC Bank

The HSBC Bank is a three-storey building, constructed with painted stucco and featuring a parapet and brick end stacks. It has six bays, with a channelled rusticated ground floor and moulded cornices under the first and second floor sills. The top cornice is also moulded, and the five-bay parapet is divided by panelled piers. The building has plate glass sash windows that are closely spaced, except for the fourth bay which is wider. The six upper sash windows, along with the two in the third and fourth bays of the first floor, have moulded architraves and cornices above on console brackets, with the first-floor windows also featuring moulded keystones.

The outer bays of the first floor have large square oriels with triple plate glass sashes at the front and single sashes on the sides. These oriels have a moulded cornice and a panelled base over a heavily moulded tapered underside. The bases of the oriels rest on top of moulded entablatures that separate two ground floor triple sash windows, which are divided by pilasters. The doorway is located in the third bay to the left of centre, featuring short pilasters on high panelled bases that support exaggerated reeded console brackets carrying a steep semicircular hood. There are four stone steps leading up to a heavy linenfold panelled nine-panel door with a plain fanlight above. The fourth bay has a single sash window with pilasters and an entablature.

The right end features a triple window where the centre light has been cut down to create a door, now fitted with a uPVC door and overlight. The left end wall is slate-hung.

The banking hall has been wholly altered, with panelled reveals to the windows in the upper storeys. There is a staircase in the right end bay, where the lower flight was replaced in 1890 with a cast-iron lower newel and cast-iron pierced balusters. An earlier turned baluster staircase from the first floor was not available for inspection in 2005.