Attached symmetrical multi-bay two-storey sandstone former bank, built c.1869, to the designs of W.J. Barre with a central pedimented breakfront combining Romanesque detailing with Neo-Palladian symmetry. Extensively renovated and extended to the rear for use as a supermarket by Chapman Taylor Architects c.2005.
Rectangular on plan fronting onto Royal Avenue at the junction with Castle Place having a central domed interior. Pitched natural slate roof with roll-moulded black clay ridge tiles laid out on a quadrangular plan with replacement steel rainwater goods and profiled sandstone ashlar chimneystacks. Bitumen covered flat roof to the central section having replacement Perspex domed lanterns to the west and a central red brick drum with a shallow lead-lined conical roof surmounted by a Perspex dome. Gauged brick round-headed window openings to the drum having replacement fixed-pane timber windows and a continuous concrete sill.
The lower south range has three lead-lined wall-head dormers with replacement uPVC windows. The roof to the principal front block is set behind a parapet with interlacing stone balustrade punctuated by squat piers having gableted capstones, all resting on a lead-lined crown cornice. Moulded cast-iron guttering to the side elevations with decorative hoppers and square-profile downpipes having trefoil brackets. Cookstown sandstone ashlar walling with roll-moulded plinth course, continuous sill courses to both floors and a continuous string course below the crown cornice. Round-headed window openings to the ground floor, square-headed to the first floor (unless otherwise stated) with single-pane timber sash windows having ogee horns.
Symmetrical east front elevation is seven windows wide with a central pedimented breakfront. Lead-lined pediment has a plain tympanum with dentilled stiff-leaf trim and raking cornice with modillions. A continuous cable moulding and double convex string course form a plain frieze over the first floor windows with a series of concave brackets with nail-head embellishments framing a dentilled course in turn supporting the modillioned crown cornice. Arcaded openings to the first floor with compound arches springing from columns with stiff-leaf capitals (paired to either end) resting on a continuous lead-lined sill course and housing deeply set square-headed window openings framed by clustered colonettes and surmounted by decoratively carved overpanels adorned with carved heads depicting seven Irish kings.
Decorative carvings embellish the spandrels with apron panels below the recessed sills. Deeply set stepped round-headed window openings to the ground floor with roll-moulded arches rising from a continuous stiff-leaf impost course and framed by clasping colonettes. Decorative roundels to the spandrels are filled with blind cartouches with hood mouldings. Three deeply set round-headed door openings to the central breakfront having double-leaf timber doors with raised-and-fielded panels, plain overlights and surmounted by decoratively carved overpanels with carvings of heads. Compound moulded arches rise from clustered colonettes having a continuous stiff-leaf impost course and roundels, as per above, with the central opening flanked by a pair of columns. Doors open onto raised platform with replacement stone paving to front forecourt.
The principal front block returns to both side elevations, detailed as per front elevation. The south side elevation to the principal block is three windows wide with a blind window to the centre on the first floor while the windows to the ground floor are also blind with a door opening to the left having an original timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels framed by colonettes and opening onto three nosed steps to a railed area. Replacement steel railing spans the entire south side elevation.
The south side elevation extends as a lower two-storey wing, six windows wide, topped by an eaves cornice and plain frieze. Stepped segmental-headed window openings to the first floor, square-headed to the ground floor with continuous moulded sills and single-pane timber sash windows.
Rear elevation abutted by two-storey red brick extension, built c.2005, fronting onto Bank Street. The north side elevation to the principal block is four windows wide, all blind and detailed as per front elevation. The ground floor is abutted by a single-storey recessed side entrance block, also abutting adjoining building.
The entrance block is surmounted by a stiff-leaf impost moulding having a square-headed door opening set within a segmental-headed recess framed by colonettes and having a timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, opening onto a stone-paved universal access ramp.