Lloyds Bank, Bank House and No. 7, Old Market Place

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SJ 7688 SE 10/28

ALTRINCHAM OLD MARKET PLACE (west side) Lloyds Bank, Bank House and No. 7

12.5.76

G.V. II

Bank, formerly Brooks Bank. 1872. George Truefitt, for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. Sandstone. Ashlar ground floor, decorative timber framed upper floors, clay tile roof. An imposing composition in a Cheshire Vernacular style which successfully exploits the curve of the road. Two storeys, four bays with three unequal gables in bays one, three and four and a two-arched entrance porch in bay two with balustrade and balcony above. Bays one and four have three-light mullion and transom windows to the ground floor, timber oriels to the first and attic windows in the gables which have elaborate bressumers, barge boards and finials. Bay three projects and has a larger gable and a two-storey segmental 11-light window with transoms on the upper floor. Tudor style moulded stone chimney stacks and an elaborate timber and lead bellcote.

Listing NGR: SJ7676188063