Lloyd'S Bank

NZ 05 SE CONSETT SNOW'S GREEN ROAD (West side) Shotley Bridge 5/83 (inset) Lloyd's Bank (Fomerely 6/6/51 listed as Lloyds Bank and manager's house) GV II Town Hall, with bank on ground floor from 1872, and concert room above; now bank. Circa 1860 by Smith and Son. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 2 storeys, 3 bays, and 3 lower storeys, 7 bays in returns. Steps up to paired panelled doors and overlights flanked and separated by shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, supporting large, many-moulded stone brackets and hipped slated hood. Canted bay window above, breaking into hood, has 3 tall cusped lancets under 2-centred-arched surrounds; side bays have flat-2-centred-arched ground-floor windows and cusped lancets above. Impost, floor and sill bands, and top band cornice. Tall hipped roof over entrance bay with slate-hung square tower and pyramidal spire,all with fish- scale bands. Left return has similar treatment to cusped lancets in long first- floor window in canted 2-storey projection; plainer central full-height canted bay. Hipped roofs over canted bays. Coped ridge chimneys. Source: G. Neasham, History and Biographies of West Durham, Sunderland 1880 Vol.V, 85.

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