2, City Road

This is a bank, later offices, constructed in 1892 by T.M. Lockwood for the Liverpool Union Bank, which subsequently became Williams Deacons Bank. It is built of yellow sandstone ashlar with an orange clay tile roof, and displays a late 17th-century Baroque style. The building has cellars, three storeys and an attic, with three window bays facing each street. A canted corner features a pair of tourelles topped with copper cupola roofs; sillbands and floor-strings are also present. The City Road elevation has a pair of six-panel hardwood doors with a three-pane fanlight, carved frieze, and pediment bearing an armorial shield. Below this is a round-arched window with two panes, and a similar window to the canted corner, with the sill sloping down towards Boughton. Three further similar windows are also present on the City Road elevation. The Boughton elevation features a round-arched window above the doorway, along with a cross-window and a canted corner with a small window in an ornate case on each tourelle. The first floor has a mullioned two-light window to the City Road side, a pedimented mullioned and transomed three-light window above the doorway where the transom is round-arched in the central light, a cross-casement, and a canted corner with a small window in an ornate case on each tourelle. The Boughton side mirrors this design. The second floor has a mullioned two-light window and a four-light window to City Road, a mullioned two-light window to the corner (with slight alterations to the glazing with a small window in each tourelle), and a three-light mullioned window to each side of a four-light window to Boughton. The roof is hipped towards the canted corner. The tourelles are capped by belvederes with Doric columns supporting the cupola roofs. Each street face has a round window in an ornate case with a pedimented gable; balustrades connect the cupolas to the gables. A central ashlar chimney is present, with a hipped roof to the right end-gable with an ashlar chimney, and a shaped gable on the left end incorporating a two-light window. All upper-storey windows have leaded glazing. The ground floor interior surfaces are covered. The upper storeys were not inspected. A screen wall to the yard on the left side has a boarded door.