Lloyds TSB Bank, including Lloyds Bank Chambers

Lloyds TSB Bank, including Lloyds Bank Chambers

An Edwardian Freestyle bank with terracotta facing on a polished granite plinth and slate roof behind parapets. Ashlar stacks are enriched by corbelled pilasters. The building is three storeys high.

The principal frontage to Turf Square comprises three bays, with a distinctive partly splayed corner bay that incorporates the main entrance. A four-bay elevation faces Eastgate Street, which includes the entrance to Lloyds Bank Chambers.

The corner bay is splayed in the lower storey. The main doorway features an elaborate surround with attached Ionic columns and a projecting, coffered round arch supported on foliage-enriched consoles with small pediments. The tympanum is framed by alternate stressed voussoirs and a prominent keystone, with bold stylised scallop decoration in high relief. Above the doorway projects a two-storey oriel, supported on a massive sculpted eagle corbel. The oriel contains two-pane sash windows in both storeys, framed by Tuscan colonnettes on polygonal bases at middle storey level and on panelled bases at upper storey level. It terminates in a polygonal domed roof with a raised central cupola enriched with lions in relief beneath concave pediments and an apex finial.

The three-bay Turf Square elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a narrower central bay. Lower-storey windows are recessed between pilasters that are panelled in the lower half beneath pediments and fluted above with Ionic capitals. The round-arched outer windows have moulded surrounds with alternate stressed voussoirs. They are three-light with smaller panes above a dentilled transom; the wooden mullions incorporate panels and fluting with Ionic capitals. The central bay contains a single-light window with glazing bars. Above the windows runs a blank entablature with dentilled cornice, which continues along the Eastgate Street elevation. Upper floors are articulated by pilaster strips terminating in balls and finials on the parapet.

The first floor has a pair of two-pane sash windows to the left, flanking an Ionic pedestal supporting a sculpted winged beast that carries a broad and shallow triangular upper-storey oriel window with two-pane over single-pane sashes. The gabled parapet carries an attached diagonal shaft with finial. The central bay contains a two-pane sash window at middle storey and a two-over-one-pane sash at upper storey level. The right-hand bay features a shallow, slightly recessed two-storey oriel corbelled out with anthemion enrichment. The middle storey has two-pane sashes with Tuscan colonnettes rusticated in the lower half; the upper storey has two-over-one-pane sash windows with Tuscan colonnettes. The gabled parapet has an attached square shaft with finial.

The Eastgate Street elevation is similarly enriched, with balanced asymmetry created by paired central bays flanked by narrower bays. The central bays have round-arched lower windows as before, and paired tripartite windows with colonnettes beneath a string course forming a segmental pediment. The first-floor windows match those described above, beneath a level cornice, with gables featuring central shafts and finials. The right-hand bay has a cambered-arched window to ground floor and an expressed chimney in the upper floors, which incorporates an aedicule around a carved beehive at first-floor level. The left-hand bay, slightly set back, comprises the entrance and stair to Lloyds Bank Chambers and is treated differently. The ground floor is rusticated with an entablature inscribed in relief. The entablature bears 'Lloyds Bank Chambers' in relief. The surround frames a segmental-headed doorway and narrow segmental window to its left, incorporating a letter box, both framed by attached Ionic half columns. The doorway contains double fielded-panel doors with upper glazed panels. Above the doorway, stair windows project slightly and are set at a different level from the remaining elevation windows. A cross window in an architrave with cornice on deep foliage-enriched consoles serves the lower landing; above it is a round-headed window in a keyed architrave with pilasters topped by Ionic capitals at impost level, then pedimented fluted pilasters above to a cornice continuous with the upper-storey sill band of the bays further right. Beneath the eaves is a smaller paired window with Tuscan colonnette and scrolled sides, below a deep cornice and pyramidal stone roof with pinnacle.

The left gable end to Eastgate Street is brick with stone bands and a former external stack reduced beneath the eaves. The gable is coped with an apex finial. The right gable end to Bridge Street is also brick with stone bands in the upper storeys, above a rendered lower storey where a former attached building has been removed.

The banking hall features a bracketed ceiling cornice and panelled cross beam.