Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank is a building dating from around 1896, likely designed by J. W. Dyson of Newcastle, in the Wren Revival style. It stands three storeys tall and features seven windows. The structure is made of red brick with a rusticated granite ground floor and stone dressings, including cill and lintel bands on the first floor, a moulded cill string on the second floor, pilaster strips, a modillion cornice, and a pediment. There is a slight curve to the facade facing Fore Street. The central pediment is topped with a parapet. The building has late glazing in sash windows, raised architraves, and aprons on the second floor, with bracketted hoods above the windows on the first floor and late casements on the ground floor. The central entrance is adorned with a bracketted balustrade leading to a first-floor window that features a broken scroll pediment; the window above it on the second floor is blind and displays a heraldic device. The right-hand window is tripartite. Each bay is separated by pilaster strips, with the bands, string, and cornice breaking forward above them. The brick chimneys are detailed with stone mouldings and patterned pots. Lloyds Bank, along with No. 4, forms a group with the Midland Bank located at Cattlemarket.