Lloyds bank

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SZ 0891 13/130

OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (North Side) Nos 45 and 47 (Lloyds bank)

1.8.74.

GV II

Italianate Baroque, circa 1875, three storeys, entirely faced in golden Ham Hill stone towards Old Christchurch Road and on splayed corner (answering similar splay of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc). Albert Road flank in buff brick with generous Ham Hill dressings. Rusticated quoins.

Old Christchurch Road front four windows wide: rusticated ground floor, round-headed windows, heavy dentil cornice, first floor windows with individual balustered balconies and triangular pediments on console brackets. Heavy cornices also to first and second floors, with panelled roof parapet. Splayed corner rusticated on all three floors and with rounded corners. Open segmental pediment with dentils over main entrance continuous with cornice over ground floor, foliage capitals to rusticated pilasters continued as frieze over door, door frame round-arched with continuous fluted moulding interrupted by criss-cross wreaths end sculptured keystone.

Albert Road front, five windows wide, has two subsidiary entrances, one in a slightly projecting bay, the other in a two-storey rear extension. Banking hall has panelled ceiling, egg-and-dart and dentil cornice, and flowery swags over window frames, space divided in two by screen of fluted columns and square piers.

Nos 45 and 47 (Lloyds Bank) and Nos 49 and 51 (The Royal Bank of Scotland plc) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ0876191232