Lloyds Bank Chambers

MIDDLESBROUGH ALBERT ROAD, NZ 4920NE east side. 8/2 Lloyds Bank Chambers (No.2) 8-5-86 - II Dining room and shops, built as extension to adjoing department store, now disused bank premises; 1899 by Robert Moore (Middlesbrough). Smooth red brick, with red and buff terracotta dressings, now painted. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 4 bays fronting onto Wilson Street. Narrow right end entrance bay now holds window; entered from bank adjoining right. Altered wood shop front on ground floor, has panelled stallrisers and pilasters with quasi-Eygptian palm capitals supporting panelled frieze and modillion cornice. Fluted stone corbels to end pilasters. Applied Composite Order on first floor, with Ipswich bay windows having sashes in lower lights; upper parts of sashes and fixed upper lights have glazing bars. Right end bay has keyed oculus under shaped panel ornamented with swag and cornice. Gabled roof dormer, in 2nd bay, has similar Order and bay window under segmental pediment. Diminutive segmental pediments and blocks cap tops of columns and apex of gable. Flat-roofed dormers, with similar paired sashes, in other bays. Terracotta gable coping at left end. Corniced ridge stack and reduced left end stack. Similar bay windows linked by semicircular hood, on first floor of 2-bay left return. 2 oculi in gable. Narrow 2-bay wing adjoins rear (south). Former bank premises are not of special interest. Disused and dilapidated at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: NZ4962020567