Lloyds Bank Numbers 1 And 3 With Railings And Gates To South

This is a bank building incorporating two terraced houses, constructed around 1895-96. It was designed by Horace Field in an Edwardian Baroque style.

The bank section is built of red brick with stone dressings and quoins. It has a slate roof with dormers, slab chimney stacks, and a modillion eaves cornice with a carved, enriched frieze. The building is three storeys high with an attic and basement, featuring eight windows facing Rosslyn Hill. The bank’s entrance is situated on a splayed corner, featuring a stone doorcase with pilasters supporting an open pediment with a cartouche. Above the doorway is an architraved entrance with a keystone and double panelled doors. The ground floor frontage has three large round-arched windows with rusticated voussoirs, the central window also featuring a cartouche. The upper floors have gauged red brick flat arches with stone keystones over flush-framed sash windows, with exposed boxing and louvred shutters. The first floor of the windows above the central round arched windows has flanking narrow sashes, while the first floor features a French window with a cast-iron balcony. Above the entrance is a transom and mullion window, with a cast-iron balcony to the second floor.

Numbers 1 and 3 Pilgrims Lane, which are part of the same development, are in a similar style, with three storeys, attics and semi-basements. Each has an entrance with pilasters carrying an entablature and a fanlight over panelled doors. They each have three-window segmental bays rising from the basement through the first floor.

The banking hall's interior is particularly notable, with sumptuous and complete original features. The reverse of the entrance door is adorned with a round-headed pediment, richly carved with a cartouche, set over fluted Corinthian columns. The hall has panelled walls, window surrounds, and radiator covers featuring decorated grilles and timber ledges. The original central counter remains, although later security screens have been added to the top. A door, inscribed 'waiting room' over a pediment, leads to the south-east. The interiors of the houses were not inspected.