Lloyds Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Bank.
Lloyds Bank
- WRENN ID
- tired-pediment-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Lloyds Bank, the Strand
- OS grid reference
- SX 918 635
- Coordinates
- 50.46171, -3.52535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lloyds Bank is a bank building dating from around 1900, located on an important corner site at the end of Vaughan Parade, facing Fleet Street. It features fine sandstone ashlar on a local grey rock-faced limestone plinth, with a roof concealed behind a balustraded parapet. The building is two storeys high and has a front that is divided into three main sections, with the corner section canted. The bays are separated by giant Corinthian pilasters, topped with an entablature that includes a projecting moulded cornice on brackets, decorated with dentil and egg and dart moulding.
The banking hall at the front has three tripartite windows, each with cornices on consoles and pediments above the central light, while the corner window features a segmental pediment. Above, there are tripartite pilastered windows on the first floor, with sill brackets, and the side lights of the corner window are blind. The centre bay facing Fleet Street is slightly advanced and rusticated, with a doorcase that has a stone hood on moulded brackets beneath a segmental pediment. A similar rusticated bay is found in the centre of the Vaughan Parade elevation, and there are small windows with moulded architraves in the narrow left-hand bay on Vaughan Parade. The Palk Street elevation is styled similarly. All windows are fitted with 2-pane sashes that include margin panes.
Inside, the banking hall features a coffered plaster ceiling. Historically, this site was previously occupied by the Torquay Bank before being taken over by Lloyds in 1900.
Local climate
Lloyds Bank receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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