Lloyds Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1988. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Lloyds Bank
- WRENN ID
- tired-dormer-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1988
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Lloyds Bank, 69 High Street, Town, CF47 8AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 062
- Coordinates
- 51.74659, -3.37793
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lloyds Bank is a finely detailed Inter-War classical bank building featuring two elevations. It is one storey high with a basement and has a nine-bay entrance front that is pilastered and made of ashlar. The entrance front has a blind attic storey that steps up in the center. It features an overall dentil cornice and a plain frieze, with fluted two-thirds Ionic columns that have anthemion neck-bands flanking a solid entrance bay. Above the entrance bay, there is a cornice on volute brackets adorned with a bay-leaf garland, and the entrance consists of double panelled doors with paterae and anthemion bosses. The solid end bays are clasped by pilasters with oval windows, and the windows have fixed small-pane glazing with aprons. The five-bay flank elevation has a similar design, leading to a low extension at the rear.
Inside, the banking hall is exceptional, featuring Ionic pilasters, a dentil cornice, and a rich coffered ceiling. The rear wall has clerestory glazing, and there are dentilled cornices above the overdoors, with two-panel doors set in lugged architraves. Modern bandit-screens have been added to the original counters.
Local climate
Lloyds Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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