Lloyd'S Bank And Attached Walls And Gates

SUNDERLAND

NZ3957SE FAWCETT STREET 920-1/18/73 (West side) 10/11/78 No.54 Lloyd's Bank and attached walls and gates (Formerly Listed as: FAWCETT STREET (West side) No.54 Lloyd's Bank)

GV II

Bank, now Lloyd's, with dwarf walls and gates attached. 1890. For Lambton's Bank. Ashlar with pink granite plinth and columns and slate roof; cast-iron gates. Palazzo style. 3 storeys, 5x3:2 windows. Rusticated ground floor has high plinths to Tuscan porches of outer bays linked by balustrades in second and third bays of Fawcett Street elevation and interrupted by opening to area in third bay; pediments over pulvinated friezes of panelled doors. 3 central round-headed windows between attached columns have renewed glazing. Ground floor entablature projects over porches and supports recessed first-floor windows with Ionic pilasters and dentilled pediments. Sill string to second-floor casements with Tuscan pilasters; top dentilled entablature and blocking course. Mansard roof has 5 dormers with round-headed lights under scrolled pediments. Left return has 3 bays in similar style to front; first bay at left projects under mansard roof; tripartite windows in lower central section. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 21).

Listing NGR: NZ3972257040