Lloyds Bank

TL8564SW 639-1/14/213 07/08/52

BURY ST EDMUNDS BUTTERMARKET (West side) No.9 Lloyds Bank

GV II

Premises of Lloyds Bank. Rebuilt for Robert Carss between 1795 and 1797 on the site of the premises of Messrs Spink & Carss, drapers and bankers. White brick, with Ketton stone dressings; slate roof with cornice and parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. 5 window range, 12-pane sashes in plain reveals. A stone band below the 1st storey windows and a deep stone band above them with LLOYDS BANK LIMITED in large lettering. 3 wide 3-light ground-storey windows have elliptical arched brick openings with the upper part blocked and ornamented with delicate simulated Adam style glazing. 2 semicircular arched doorways have good fanlights, also in Adam style. From 1829 to 1899 these were the premises of Oakes, Bevan & Co.'s Bank and the earlier association is commemorated in the wrought-iron hanging sign attached to the front. This has the date 1795 and is decorated with scroll-work and painted in green and gold. At the top is an oak tree and above the words LLOYDS BANK LIMITED is a gilded beehive. INTERIOR: no visible original features inside, apart from the upper flights of the late C18/early C19 stair of the former bank house at the south end of the building, with bracketed open strings, stick balusters and an inlaid ramped handrail. All the stonework for the building, both inside and out, was supplied by the Bury St Edmunds stonemason John de Carle: details are in his account books in the Bury & West Suffolk Record Office.

Listing NGR: TL8531164251