Former Lloyds Bank

This is a former branch of Lloyds Bank, constructed between 1903 and 1905 to designs by Horace Field. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with Portland stone dressings and a hipped slate roof. It has three main floors and an attic, with a two-story rear wing.

The bank occupies a corner location, with a narrower frontage on the High Street and a longer return to Peel Street. A corner porch, now enclosed, features arched openings to the west and north sides. A cartouche at the corner displays the Lloyds emblem—a bee skep—with the initials 'LBL' within a deeply carved Rococo surround. The High Street frontage has a prominent single bay which projects forward, flanked by pilaster buttresses at ground-floor level with quoins. Above this, Ionic pilasters rise to a pediment. A shallow bow window at ground-floor level sits between the buttresses, with a stone base. Above the bow window, the windows on the first and second floors are paired sashes with exposed sash boxes and windows of three by six panes. The first-floor windows have gauged heads and slender keystones. The Ionic capitals support a pulvinated frieze, and a deep wooden cornice runs around the building at eaves level.

The north face to Peel Street has four bays with paired sash windows; the ground and first floors have gauged heads and keystones as on the High Street, along with exposed sash boxes. The ground-floor bays on the right form part of the corner porch entry, visible also on the High Street frontage. Downpipes with hoppers bear the date '1904'. The two central windows on the second floor are wide triple sashes, differing from the paired sashes below. Three attic dormer windows have flat heads and casement lights. A lower two-story block, built in the 1920s and presumably originally office chambers, adjoins the main building to the left, and is constructed of plum-coloured brick. This later addition is of less architectural significance.

The corner porch entrance has a groin-vaulted ceiling. The remainder of the interior was subdivided and reordered internally by 2009.