Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank is a bank on a corner site, built around 1890 in the Edwardian Baroque style. It is constructed primarily of squared red sandstone for the upper floors, with cream limestone ashlar to the ground floor and for the dressings. A granite plinth supports the building, and it is topped by a slate roof with panelled stacks to the axial chimneys.

The building is rectangular with a prominent canted corner. The three-storey, seven-window facade incorporates four windows to the left and two to the right, framing the impressive canted entrance bay. A balustraded parapet, panelled stacks acting as piers, a heavy modillion cornice, and a complex egg-and-dart frieze extend across both facades. The upper floors are detailed with a giant order of paired fluted Corinthian columns. The second floor has a moulded sill course, bracketed sills, and Gibbs surrounds to the paired plate-glass windows. The first floor features similar windows within moulded eared architraves, under dentil cornices and alternating segmental and triangular pediments.

The ground floor has a granite plinth and is constructed of banded rusticated ashlar with wide banded pilasters above which support paired columns. Articulated recessed panels are flanked by Corinthian colonettes with plain shafts. These panels contain plate-glass windows, deep ogee-moulded sills, and voussoirs that extend up to a ground-floor entablature. The canted entrance bay has a dentil cornice and a pediment over a semicircular recess containing a large projecting clock. A second-floor window is topped with a triangular pediment, and a first-floor window has a segmental pediment. A corbelled-out balustraded balcony forms a porch over the entrance, which has an open pediment containing a coat of arms and foliate spandrels, supported by elaborate consoles. Corinthian columns flank panelled double doors.

Inside, the inner lobby and banking hall exhibit open pediments over panelled doors, egg-and-dart moulded rails to dados, elaborate panelled plaster ceilings with modillion cornices, foliate friezes, and panelled soffits, the latter supported by Corinthian columns.