Prospect House (Lloyds Bank)

This is a mid-18th century, detached, symmetrical house, significantly altered around 1903. It is a large building with a gabled slate roof and prominent red brick chimney stacks to the left and right. The building has a timber modillion eaves cornice incorporating an egg and dart band, which is likely from the early 20th century. The facade is painted roughcast, with stucco window surrounds painted a similar colour to the sandstone centrepiece. The upper floors feature twelve-pane horned sash windows in shouldered surrounds dating to the early 20th century, with square windows on the second floor. The ground floor has four-light stone-mullioned windows also recessed within similar shouldered surrounds, but with moulded cornices above.

A two-storey early 20th-century central section surrounds the main entrance door and the window above, built in an elaborate Anglo-Baroque style. The ground floor is channel-rusticated with paired applied columns on either side of an arched doorway, while the narrower first floor has an ornate, open-pedimented architrave supported by two columns. These columns are of pink sandstone resting on panelled pedestals, with carved capitals – Ionic for the smaller first-floor columns and Roman Doric for the larger ground-floor pairs. Above is an aedicule framing a window with a shouldered architrave, a large triple keystone, and relief carvings on either side, all beneath the open pediment. The pediment columns are set against scrolled piers with further scrollwork on either side of the pedestals. The ground-floor cornice projects forward over the paired columns and the carved keystone; it features a pulvinated frieze with an inscription.

The arched doorway leads to a deeply-recessed, probably original, door with six moulded and fielded panels, topped with a fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars. Early 20th-century brass door fittings are present, and the entrance is paved with semi-circular flagstones.

At the rear, the original walls are of rubble stone. A two-storey lean-to extension is set in from the left end, and an additional 20th-century lean-to is attached at the east end. A lower, two-storey rear wing extends to the north, featuring brick dressings around the openings, notably a broad coach entry.

Internally, the house has been altered in the early and late 20th century. A plaster relief portrait of David Jones is on one wall. The later 20th-century bank premises have been installed. The original staircase to the first floor is disused, though stairs still lead to the second floor, with a curving handrail that is mostly enclosed. Access to the upper floors is now via rear cast iron steps leading to the first floor. One original internal door remains (to a toilet). Broad early 20th-century openings have been created between first-floor rooms, featuring panelled wooden folding doors and reveals to segmental arched openings. Some plain cornice moulding remains on the second floor, but much of the original plasterwork and chimney pieces have been removed.