Former Lloyds Bank

Former bank with adjoining offices, designed in 1912 by J Bilson of Hull, situated on a corner site in Kingston upon Hull.

The building occupies a prominent corner position with an angled corner formed from a single bay. It rises three storeys with an attic. The bank section faces Silver Street with six bays, whilst the adjoining offices extend along Market Place. The entrance to the bank is positioned in the fifth bay from the corner.

The bank is constructed in ashlar throughout, while the offices feature an ashlar ground floor with brick and ashlar dressings above. The roofs are slate.

The bank's ground floor is rusticated and finished with a continuous architrave and wide plain fascia with a cornice above. The ground floor windows feature double keystones, though the window joinery is a modern replacement. The entrance is framed by an architrave with a double keystone and sits below an open-based segmental pediment supported on fluted columns. A carved relief featuring a central oval shield is protected beneath the pediment.

The first floor windows have triple keystones protected by open-based triangular pediments supported by brackets, and retain their original twelve-pane sashes. The second floor windows also retain twelve-pane sashes with double keystones and projecting cills. The window heads have hoodmoulds extending from the cornice. Above the second floor is a modillion cornice supporting a balustrade with pedestals. The roof features an ashlar ridge and gable stack.

The offices section has a rusticated ashlar ground floor similar to the bank, though the course containing window keystones is omitted, lowering the architrave and cornice. The entrance retains double panelled doors but is otherwise simplified. The first floor windows have projecting moulded stone architraves, cills and corniced lintels. The second floor windows match the bank's design with triple keystones and twelve-pane sashes. A modillion cornice continues from the bank section, but without a balustrade. Instead, three box dormer windows with double six-pane casements are positioned above. The roof has brick ridge stacks with stone dressings rising from each gable.

The interior contains a classically finished banking hall complete with a glass domed roof light to the rear, though minor alterations including new stud partitions and security screens have been introduced. The building is a good example of Edwardian commercial design employing classical architecture to convey respectability and permanence befitting a bank, executed in good quality materials and workmanship.