Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank is a bank building located on Guildford High Street, constructed in 1765 with 19th-century alterations. The left end was reconstructed in 1899, and there are 20th-century extensions at the rear. The building features deep red header bond brick above a colourwashed and rendered ground floor, topped with a parapet that obscures a plain-tiled roof. It stands three storeys high, with terracotta plat bands on the first floor adorned with egg and dart moulding, and an egg and dart decorated cornice at the base of the parapet. There are corbelled ridge stacks at the ends and left of centre, along with prominent decorative rainwater heads and a downpipe to the left.

The façade consists of five bays with replacement 16-pane glazing-bar sash windows on the second floor, which are set under gauged brick heads and flanked by shutters. The first floor has five 12-pane sashes with similar surrounds. The ground floor features three wood-framed, round-headed fixed windows with glazing-bars, set over panelled risers and beneath an egg and dart band, complete with scrolled keystones. Roman Ionic pilasters define the ground floor, supporting a modillioned cornice and entablature above. To the right of centre, there are panelled double doors within an Ionic half-column surround, with impost mouldings that extend to link with the windows. The doors are flanked by foliage pattern panels and topped with a wood-traceried fanlight and a portrait head keystone.

Inside, the Banking Hall has a fielded panelled roof that is coved at the eaves, featuring egg and dart bands around a central rectangular well. Above this well is a panelled flat section with plasterwork rose panels. The hall is surrounded by arcades on three sides, supported by panelled piers with plasterwork cartouches on the spandrels. This building was originally the Guildford Old Bank, and a plaque on the front notes that the façade was preserved during late 19th-century alterations at the special request of H.R.H. Princess Louise and the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.