18 Lammas Street

Former bank building, English Baroque style. Two-storeys of red brick with Bath stone ground floor, and first floor dressings and balustrades. Slate roofs, hipped to left. Five bay front to Lammas Street divided 3 bays to left and added 2 bays to right, close-spaced and 7-bay left side to Water Street, virtually symmetrical with wider spaced bays. Windows in bays separated by pilasters on each floor with minor cornice over ground floor and full entablature with modillion cornice and balustraded parapet above. First floor windows are square headed in lugged ashlar surrounds with keystones and pediments, either curved or triangular, on console brackets. Triangular pediments to bays 1, 3, 4 and 5 on Lammas Street and 1 , 4 and 7 on Water Street. Ashlar pilasters to angles of original Lammas Street 3 bays and to each side of the added 2 bays, also framing the outer bays of the Water Street front, otherwise brick pilasters with ashlar Ionic capitals and bases. Moulded sill course and deep horizontal band between ground and first floors but with balustrading between raised plinths only under outermost windows of both facades. Band formerly had Midland Bank lettering. The ground floor has rusticated pilasters over a high plinth broken forward at each pedestal. Arched windows with moulded heads, keystones and moulded imposts. Horned sash windows to first floor with small-pane upper sashes; top-opening windows to front right. Ground floor fixed windows with 3-pane fanlights, except to front right; modern doors to entrances at left end of both front and side elevations. Pilasters to right end of both parts of the front have plaques reading: ''This pine end belongs to the house eastward''.

Ground floor banking hall altered in late C20.