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Latitude: 51.704 / 51°42'14"N
Longitude: -2.9038 / 2°54'13"W
OS Eastings: 337640
OS Northings: 200976
OS Grid: SO376009
Mapcode National: GBR J9.3Y0F
Mapcode Global: VH79V.MF7J
Plus Code: 9C3VP33W+JF
Entry Name: Old Bank House, and attached iron railings
Listing Date: 1 April 1974
Last Amended: 30 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2191
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300002191
Early C19. Provincial Banking Corporation established here in 1860, previously occupied by a solicitor. The unusual columns were brought from Italy.
Late Georgian villa with some Victorian alterations. Stucco rendered and painted; shallow-pitched hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and bracketed cornice. Two storeys. Three-window range of sashes in reveals with narrow glazing bars and shallow sills to first floor. Central round-arched doorway with panelled reveals and recessed part-glazed 6-panelled door with fanlight with radial glazing; later gabled surround with fluted columns with elaborate enriched capitals. Later large bay window to right with hipped slate roof and full-length windows, narrow recessed blind panels. High part-rendered rubble stone wall extends forward at left and joins with iron railings with leaf and urn finials on a stone kerb set between piers with vermiculated panels; double gates.
Listed as a Georgian house with Victorian embellishments. Group value with other listed buildings in Porthycarne Street.
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