Lloyds Bank

Bank, painted stucco with slate roofs. Street front in 2 sections, 3-storey to right (No 42) and single-storey to left (No 43). No 42 has 4-bay front with paired modillions to eaves cornice, channelled outer piers interrupted by first and second floor sill bands and plinth. Plate-glass horned sash windows in moulded surrounds, smaller on 2nd floor. Arched doorway in third bay with 8-panel door and good C18 traceried fanlight, in later C18 doorcase with open pediment on Ionic 3-quarter columns with entablature blocks above and moulded bases. The door and doorcase have been resited from first bay. Rear large projecting gable to left, the gable end painted and rendered with massive external chimney-breast, narrowing with 2 offsets to right and one to left. C20 attic window to right, narrow C20 2nd floor left window and C20 ground floor or basement window set low to right. Buttress against ground floor left. Lean-to against left side wall. No 43 King Street is single storey, of 5 bays, channelled rusticated, with high parapet, dentil cornice, sill band and plinth. Large plate-glass horned sashes in moulded surrounds with friezes and alternating pediments and cornices. Centre pediment over large rectangular framed plaque inscribed ''Bank'' over panelled door in doorcase with fluted pilasters, frieze and cornice. Rear of painted render with slate roof, 2 storeys with C20 door and windows.

Main bank hall in No 43, mainly later C19, 2 ceilings with dentil cornices, raised chimneybreast on left end wall, late C19 arch through to rear with paired half-fluted pilasters and broad depressed arch. The interior of No 42 had already been altered between 1953 and 1981 and a fine staircase removed.