Lloyds Bank

1. 1042 MARKET PLACE (North East Side) Nos 38/39 (Lloyds Bank) SU 0061 3a/267

II GV

1. Dated 1892. Imposing front with early Georgian and C17 motifs. 3 storeys and attic rubbed brick with Portland and Bath stone facings to ground floor. Upper floors articulated by 4 brick pilaster strips carried up into parapet, the stone dentil main cornice breaking forward over them. Stone coping to parapet. Steep pitch hipped slate roof. 3 light casement dormer with moulded cornice and steep bracketed pediment over centre light. 5 windows to upper floors. On 2nd floor moulded stone shouldered surrounds stepped up in centre to dentils of main cornice. Moulded sills and bands across front on lintel and sill level. Floral swags below 2 windows either side of centre. The 1st floor windows are taller, the centre one a 3 light flat fronted bow in dressed stone, pilasters between lights, convex frieze and moulded cornice breaking forward to centre. Parapet above in brick with coping and 4 squat pilasters dividing ornamented panels. The flanking windows have moulded stone shouldered surrounds, the cornice of the bow being continued over them. The outer windows have similar surrounds with the addition of bolection moulded cornices and keystones set in steep pediments. Moulded sill course and deep band below breaking forward over bow as apron with scrollwork decoration to centre panel. All windows are recessed sashes with thick glazing bars. The ground floor is of 5 bays with a high Portland stone plinth and heavy cornice. The bays are divided by Bath stone piers with a screen of Tuscan columns set against them, the banding in their lower part carried on to the piers. 4 sash windows, no glazing bars, with a fielded panel set below each. Door to right recessed of 4 fielded panels and 3 lights, rectangular fanlight, reeded doorhead between.

Nos 29 to 42 (consec) and The Market Hall form a group.

Listing NGR: SU0044061522