63 Main Street

This building, formerly a savings bank and now a shop, dates from the 18th century and is constructed of rock-faced grey limestone with tooled grey limestone dressings, a slate roof, and large grey stone end stacks. The stacks have bases sloped to the front and back with rolled angles, a string course under tall rectangular shafts with tooled chamfered angles, a moulded coved cornice, and a cap with a row of eight chimney pots. Coped end gables are also present. The building is two storeys high with a basement. It is designed in a Gothic style. The windows have pointed openings with smooth, tooled, chamfered surrounds, thick, tooled grey stone sills, and pyramid stops to the doors. Four first-floor windows, arranged in two pairs and aligned to the right, have segmental-pointed heads and four-pane sashes. The ground floor has a raised, chamfered plinth, dropped for doors in the first and third bays, although the third bay has been altered to a window. The first door is aligned to the left of the first window above, and is broader than the second. The second door has been altered into a window. The second ground floor window is aligned between the first pair of upper windows, and the former door and the window to the right are aligned with the pair of windows above. All ground floor openings feature pointed heads with eroding stone recessed in each apex. The ground floor has a six-panel door with overlight, and the windows are modern plate glass sashes. An eroding string course runs between the floors, and a sandstone eaves course is present, with the lower part chamfered. A rubble stone end wall is partially built over the end wall of the adjacent property at number 65. The rear elevation is roughcast, with modern windows in long openings, three to the first floor on the right, a door leading to a fire escape, and a smaller window to the left. Two ground floor windows, not aligned, are present, along with a full-height basement below. The ground floor interior has been altered to suit a shop.