Lloyds Bank No. 23 Former Lloyds Bank, Now Pub

This is a former bank building, now a pub, constructed in 1875 and extended in 1902. Designed by G.M. Silley for the Wilts and Dorset Bank, the extension was carried out by John Gibson. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a slate roof, hipped at the corner and flat with lead covering and a pedimented dormer on each facade. It has a rectangular plan, with a single-storey, three-window wing along George Street. The main facade to Milsom Street has five windows, the George Street facade has three, and there is one window to the canted corner. It features plate glass sash windows. The upper floor windows are irregularly articulated by a grand order of fluted Ionic pilasters on panelled dies, a balustraded parapet with panelled piers, a dentil cornice on fluted brackets and a diagonal latticed frieze. The second floor has a sill band and ornamented lintels to moulded architraves, with pulvinated friezes and pediments to the first floor windows. Pilasters flank the three windows on the left return and the three windows on the right return of the Milsom Street facade. The two ranges towards the right of the Milsom Street facade are stepped slightly forward and flanked by paired pilasters. The second-floor windows have a panel between. The upper floors of the canted corner feature banded rustication. The ground floor has a moulded plinth, rustication up to the pulvinated frieze, a ground floor cornice, moulded archivolts, keystones, an impost cornice and an arcade of semicircular recesses over plate glass windows with panelled aprons. The arch to the far left has a carved tympanum over the double doors. The main entrance on the corner also has a similar tympanum and carved spandrels below the frieze, which formerly bore the bank's name. The single-storey wing to the right is set slightly back with smaller windows. Although the interior has been altered for its use as a pub, some original bank interior elements remain.