Lloyd'S Bank And Attached Walls And Gates

Lloyd's Bank, built in 1890 for Lambton's Bank, features dwarf walls and gates attached to the building. It is designed in a palazzo style, constructed from ashlar with a pink granite plinth and columns, topped with a slate roof and cast-iron gates. The bank stands three storeys tall and has a five-bay by three-bay window arrangement. The ground floor is rusticated, with high plinths supporting Tuscan porches on the outer bays, linked by balustrades in the second and third bays of the Fawcett Street elevation. There is an opening to an area in the third bay, with pediments above pulvinated friezes of panelled doors. The three central round-headed windows between attached columns have been fitted with renewed glazing. The ground floor entablature projects over the porches and supports recessed first-floor windows adorned with Ionic pilasters and dentilled pediments. A sill string runs along the second-floor casements, which are flanked by Tuscan pilasters, and there is a top dentilled entablature with a blocking course. The mansard roof features five dormers with round-headed lights beneath scrolled pediments. The left return of the building has three bays styled similarly to the front, with the first bay on the left projecting under the mansard roof and tripartite windows in the lower central section.