TSB Bank PLC (Frome)

United Kingdom / England / Frome / Cheap Street, 25
 bank, Grade II Listed (UK)

www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-266248-25-frome
Includes No 25 Cheap Street. Circa 1840s altered 1874 as Wilts and Dorset Bank.
Architect: probably G M Silley. Builders: Carr and Pickford. Large 3 storey
Italianate corner block. Ashlar 3 4 bays. Bracket cornice and panelled parapet;
moulded string over 1st floor. North-east elevation retains 3 original glazing bar
sash windows (other 3 blank) in shaped architrave surrounds, Main front has plate
glass sashes, 1st floor surrounds altered with cornices, keys and dropped acanthus
capitals. Set back Corinthian Pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors on corner. Ground
floor projects into street with rounded corner (with entrance), bracket cornice, and
panelled piers to balustrade over; this feature is in rusticated ashlar, 3 windows
flanked by acanthus capped Pilasters; segmental arched entrance with curved spandrels,
frieze and parapet, head keystone and swagged floral caps to nook shafts.
Interior: grand row of Ionic columns to counter, enriched cornices.
BA11 1BW
Tel: 0845 072 3333
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Coordinates:   51°13'51"N   2°19'17"W
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