Lloyds Bank Chambers

Lloyds Bank Chambers is a two-storey building located on the east side of Albert Road in Middlesbrough, built in 1899 by Robert Moore as an extension to an adjoining department store. The structure is made of smooth red brick with red and buff terracotta dressings, which are now painted, and features Welsh slate roofs.

The building has a four-bay façade facing Wilson Street, with a narrow entrance bay on the right that currently holds a window and is accessed from the adjacent bank. The ground floor has an altered wooden shop front with panelled stallrisers and pilasters, which are topped with quasi-Egyptian palm capitals supporting a panelled frieze and a modillion cornice. There are fluted stone corbels on the end pilasters.

On the first floor, the building displays an applied Composite Order, featuring Ipswich bay windows with sash windows in the lower sections. The upper parts of the sashes and the fixed upper lights have glazing bars. The right end bay includes a keyed oculus beneath a shaped panel adorned with a swag and cornice. A gabled roof dormer in the second bay has a similar design and a bay window under a segmental pediment.

Diminutive segmental pediments and blocks cap the tops of the columns and the apex of the gable. There are flat-roofed dormers with paired sashes in the other bays. The left end features terracotta gable coping, a corniced ridge stack, and a reduced stack at the left end. The first floor of the two-bay left return has similar bay windows linked by a semicircular hood, and there are two oculi in the gable. A narrow two-bay wing adjoins the rear (south). The former bank premises are not of special interest and were disused and dilapidated at the time of resurvey.