1 and 2 Market Place

This former bank, now a hotel and restaurant, was built around the 1870s and extended in the late 19th century. It is a four-storey building originally comprising a banking hall on the ground floor and offices above.

The main, west-facing elevation is five bays wide and three storeys high, with an additional attic storey to the northern three bays. The ground floor is constructed of ashlar masonry with polished pink and black granite dressings, with each bay delineated by rusticated pilasters resting on a plinth and pedestals, and supporting an entablature featuring a plain freeze and dentilled cornice. The ground floor bays contain a main entrance with an elaborate granite doorcase; paired plate-glass windows; two further plate-glass windows; and a round-arched entrance to a service passage, the arch containing decorative wrought ironwork with the letters “LLOYDS BANK CHAMBERS”. The main entrance doorcase has a moulded black granite rounded arch of two orders resting on pilasters, and is framed by a pink granite architrave, reeded pilasters, an entablature, a plain frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a richly-carved segmental pediment. The upper floors are of high-quality red brick. Moulded pilasters rise through the first and second floors, separating the bays and supporting an entablature with a plain frieze and elaborate modillion cornice. Each floor has tripartite one-over-one sash windows to the first, third, and fifth bays, paired one-over-one sashes to the second bay, and single sashes to the fourth bay. The first-floor windows are set in carved brick architraves and have an entablature enriched with foliate carving. The paired windows to the second bay are separated by an elaborately carved pilaster. The second-floor windows are also set within architraves, except for the paired sashes to the second bay, which have a swan-neck pediment above ornamental swags. This bay rises above the rest with an attic storey featuring a Diocletian window, moulded pilasters, and a triangular pediment; the attic storey to the flanking bays is set back behind iron railings and not visible from the street. The building has slate-covered roofs.