17 Sandhill

Office, later bank. 1885, by A B Gibson for Susannah Gibson. Ashlar sandstone with painted
plinth, Welsh slate roof with ashlar dressings. Free Renaissance style, 4 storeys and basement,
4 windows. Rusticated ground floor has multi-panelled double doors at left in keyed round
arch flanked by long curved brackets which support deep stone hood. Basement has partly
blocked windows flanking 4 panel door. Plain door overlight and ground floor sashes. Ionic
half-columns and end pilasters define bays on first and second floors, each with entablature, the
second floor with modillion cornice. Central 2 bays project slightly on first and second floors
with balustraded balconies; similar balcony to third floor. All column and pilaster plinths have
lozenge decoration, and in outer bays there are patterned window aprons. Third floor has 8-
pane sashes in architraves, outer bays flamed by shallow pilasters supporting entablature which
breaks forward over pilasters. Roof parapet has ball finials to pilasters at ends and flanking
central wide dormer with swept side panels framing pilasters of tall casement and unsupporting
high pediment. Steeply pitched roof has stone gable coping and high, wide end chimneys.
(T186/11066). LISTED GRADE 2