Bank House

House, later bank and now offices, in painted stucco. Plain large 4-storey, 4-window front, with wider spacing to centre. Raised stucco plinth. Nine-pane timber sashes with stone sills to ground floor (basement level within). Raised band above. Remaining openings are all 12-pane timber sashes with stone sills. Top has raised broad band into the base of which the upper window heads intrude, with a raised eaves course under edge of close-eaved hipped slate roof with broad rendered rear stack with some 15 chimney pots. Cast iron rainwater goods. Right side was original entrance, with band above basement and broad upper band as on S front. Door at first floor centre right reached up fine broad flight of 19 stone steps from pavement level to flat platform with stuccoed wall. Broad arched doorway with very large fanlight, blocked sidelights, reeded pilasters, and 6-panel door with 4 fielded panels. Fanlight has unusually fine and elaborate tracery. Outside steps have rubble sides with basement door and window with stone voussoirs. Wrought iron balustrade with some scrolls to rails and urns intermittently on handrail. To left, large full height blank arched recess with stone sill, between basement band and top band. Above door are 2 bays of openings, the bay to left with C20 fire-escape door each floor and bay to right with 12-pane sash each floor. Fluted rainwater head to right. Large C20 fire escape. Left side similarly rendered but without band over basement. Two-window range set to left with 6-pane sashes with side panes narrower, and stone sills. Basement door in right bay, arched with C20 door and plain fanlight. Blocked sub-basement opening under left bay. Cast iron rainwater goods.

Main entry at first floor into hallway with staircase opening off on N side with stair continued down to basement. Inner hall doorway similar to main door with reeded pilasters, blank sidelights and broad fanlight. Two plaster cross-vaults with double reeded arch on leaf capitals before plain (?replaced) ceiling at foot of stairs. Staircase has half-elliptical cantilevered stone first flight with shaped tread ends, thin rail and wrought iron scrolled balusters alternated with plain (?added) stick balusters. Straight landing rail at first floor. First floor landing has axial passage elliptical arch E of stairs with reeded mouldings on small corbels. Flight from first to second floor is cantilevered timber with wrought iron balusters to different pattern, scrolled tread ends, landing rail at second floor, and reeded moulding around curved stair wall. Flat C20 oval glazing over stair, presumably under a roof-light. Basement has plaster-vaulted lobby with original cambered-headed 4-panel door off to N.