Former Lloyds Bank, Now Country House Salon And Shop Premises.

CROMER

892/0/10010 CHURCH STREET 01-JUL-02 (South side) Former Lloyds Bank, now Country House Salon and shop premises.

GV II

Former bank building now commercial premises. 1892-6. Most probably by E Boardman and Son of Norwich. Extended 1901 by G Skipper. Red brick with upper floors of front tile hung. C20 tile roof with brick left ridge stack. Domestic Revival style. 3 storeys. Plan of former banking hall to centre with entrance to right (now shop) and entrance to upper floors (now hair salon) to left. 3-window range at first floor of a single-light window with transom either side a canted oriel with mullions and transom. Pierced decorative parapet above at the centre of an ornamental plaster base to a large gable. This has false framing, 2 3-light casements and decorative bargeboards. Ground floor has central paired window with mullions and transoms and doors with overlights to either side. INTERIOR. Former banking hall has dentilled cornice and a pair of Ionic pilasters. First floor has straight flight stair up to it from ground floor and fine open well stair to second floor with imaginative arrangement of flights and turned balusters and newel posts. An original fireplace in larger front room and a window with art nouveau stained glass in rear room. A well-designed building of the period with significant group value being diagonally opposite the parish church (qv).