Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank is a bank building of 1912, designed by Kitson of Leeds, with minor later alterations. It is constructed of Portland stone with a hidden roof. The building is three storeys high and five bays wide, built in a Greek Revival style. The ground floor has horizontal rustication above the window sills. The left bay contains recessed panelled doors within a moulded architrave, featuring a large block keystone inscribed 'Bank Entrance'. Above this is a deeply recessed margin glazed square window in an architrave with decorative scrolls. Originally, a similar doorcase and window existed in the right bay, but this has been replaced with a deeply recessed margin glazed window with a top roundel, flanked by pilasters. The remaining three central bays have similar windows, the window to the left being smaller than the others; all are set above a moulded sill band. A modern fascia covers the frieze of the entablature.

The first and second floors have three central bays articulated by giant fluted columns in antis, with medallions to the friezes of the capitals. Central columns include additional decoration within the fluting to the top and base. Windows are recessed behind these columns. The end bays have windows in architraves, with block-like plinths and keyed entablatures, where the keys are large square panelled blocks that extend upwards to form aprons for the second-floor windows. The first-floor windows in the end bays have architraves with raised circle motifs, while the panels within the keystones are notched at the corners. The second-floor windows in the end bays feature moulded architraves with stepped heads and corner diamond motifs, along with moulded sills projecting over the aprons. The central second-floor windows have architraves with large panelled rectangular keystones. The glazing to both the first and second floors dates from around 1970.

The entablature over the central three bays is slightly advanced and includes triglyphs hung with guttae and paterae to the frieze. A wide, modillioned cornice runs across all bays. A stepped parapet sits above, with plain panels to the end bays, lattice decoration to the side bays flanking a central panel, and an inscription 'Anno Domini MDCCCCXII' within a stepped blocking course at the top. The interior of the banking hall has been modernised, but may retain the original ceiling above the underdrawing.