Lloyd'S Bank

Lloyd's Bank, originally a cloth hall, dates from the late 15th century and was floored in the 16th century. It was restored in the early 1950s. The building features a timber frame set on a random rubble plinth, with a restored half-timbered and close-studded front that includes some curved braces, though only a small number of the timbers are original. The roof is plain tiled and has a jettied gabled cross wing to the left, with carved bargeboards on the return gable. There is a side stack to the left on a stone-dressed brick chimney breast with offsets. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, with two windows on both floors under the gable and two windows on the block to the left. Most windows are wood-framed lattice casement cross-windows, except for the triple-width casements on the right side of both floors. The central doorway is Tudor arched and features a boarded and ribbed door.

Inside, the frame is intact but heavily restored, and the structure is of exceptional interest. The jowls of the wall posts are visible on the first floor. The ground floor has heavily roll-moulded primary ceiling beams and chamfered secondary ceiling beams with decorated lamb's tongue stops. There is a low Tudor-arched roll-moulded fire surround. The roof features a redundant crown post design with side purlins and ties from the side purlins to the collar purlin, as well as a collar purlin crown post roof over the solar.