bank/financial institution — Dame Street

Attached three-storey Gothic style former insurance company building, built 1866, having dormer attic, three-bay arcaded limestone ground floor, two-bay first floor and paired windows to floors above. Double-span slate roof, hipped to front pile, with further pitched section to front gabled dormer, with shouldered brick chimneystack to west party wall, and having iron brattishing to apex of front pile. Moulded cast-iron guttering supported on moulded limestone bracketed eaves with short box-profile downpipes feeding further moulded cast-iron gutter supported on limestone sill course to attic, and with further cast-iron downpipe to east end. Gable to attic dormer has moulded limestone raking copings and poppy-head finial. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with limestone bands to mid-level of first floor openings and to window-head level of second floor, ornate limestone impost course to first floor with foliate detailing, and with full-span moulded limestone sill courses. Square-headed window openings to attic and second floor, with moulded limestone ashlar surrounds, pierced limestone over-panels, voussoired limestone relieving arches, with decorative hood-mouldings, and second floor having paired limestone colonnettes between window openings with stiff-leaf capitals. Round-headed window openings to first floor, with compound moulded voussoired limestone heads having elaborate foliate carvings rising from stepped jambs. Triple-arch limestone arcade to ground floor, with chevron hood-mouldings, flush relieving arches rising from limestone piers with polished pink granite colonnettes and stiff-leaf capitals, supporting continuous impost mouldings, having panelled stall-risers, all surmounted by foliate cornice at first floor sill level. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, and fixed-pane windows to ground floor. Replacement hardwood panelled door to eastern bay, with foliate timber lintel cornice and plain fanlight.