Listed Building: HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY (1387017)

Building society. c1900-20. Portland stone and granite. Roof concealed. Baroque style. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Polished granite ground floor articulated by horizontal rusticated piers. To left and to right is an 8-panelled door with flanking banded pilasters, heavy brackets support cornice and bowed stone parapet. At centre are 3 large recessed casements, frieze and cornice run across. First floor has 5 recessed sashes with architrave and keystone; alternate scrolled open and triangular pediments, set within heavy horizontal banded rustication with egg-and-dart band at window heads. On second floor outer bays only are rusticated with flanking Doric pilasters, centre bay has flanking Doric attached columns; 5 sashes, centre 3 are each framed by Doric columns, frieze and cornice; outer sashes each set in Gibbs surround with keystone and cornice. Entablature with modillion cornice and parapet with balusters divided by piers. INTERIOR not inspected.