Lloyd's Bank

Lloyd's Bank, which includes No 25 Cheap Street, was built around the 1840s and altered in 1874 when it became the Wilts and Dorset Bank. The architect is probably G M Silley, and the builders were Carr and Pickford. This large three-storey Italianate corner building is constructed of ashlar and features four bays. It has a bracket cornice and a panelled parapet, with a moulded string course over the first floor. The north-east elevation retains three original glazing bar sash windows, while the other three are blank, all set in shaped architrave surrounds. The main front has plate glass sashes, and the first-floor surrounds have been altered with cornices, keys, and dropped acanthus capitals. Set back Corinthian pilasters adorn the first and second floors at the corner. The ground floor projects into the street with a rounded corner that includes the entrance, a bracket cornice, and panelled piers supporting a balustrade above. This feature is made of rusticated ashlar and has three windows flanked by acanthus-capped pilasters. The segmental arched entrance has curved spandrels, a frieze and parapet, a head keystone, and swagged floral caps on the nook shafts. Inside, there is a grand row of Ionic columns at the counter and enriched cornices.