Lloyds Bank

LLOYDS BANK, 5, MARKET SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195358
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:
Lloyds Bank
Statutory Address:
LLOYDS BANK, 5, MARKET SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195358
Date first listed:
16-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:
Lloyds Bank
Statutory Address 1:
LLOYDS BANK, 5, MARKET SQUARE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LLOYDS BANK, 5, MARKET SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 92215 23335

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW MARKET SQUARE 590-1/10/63 (East side) 16/01/51 No.5 Lloyds Bank (Formerly Listed as: MARKET SQUARE Premises occupied by Lloyd's Bank)

GV II

Bank. c1795 with alterations and additions of c1860. For Stevenson, Salt and Co. Double-depth plan. Classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range with 3-window range projecting to right. Wide 1st floor sill band and deep top modillioned cornice with blocking course; ground floor to right end has channelled rustication to ground floor and rusticated quoins above. Ground floor has round-headed windows, 2 to left with hollow-chamfered openings, one originally entrance, 2 windows to right end have rusticated voussoirs flush with rustication and fielded-panelled aprons, to right of similar entrance; plate glass with some etching. 1st floor has windows with eared architraves and 18-pane sashes; 2nd floor has square windows with architraves and 6-pane sashes. Sill band to right end inscribed: OLD BANK. 2 ashlar stacks with modillioned cornices. Right return 3-window range has similar details. INTERIOR: pilasters with large consoles to beams. HISTORY: noted as being the earliest branch of Lloyds bank outside London; the bank was founded in 1737 and incorporated in Lloyds Bank in 1866. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 244-5).

Listing NGR: SJ9221723343

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Legacy System number:
384009
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 244-5

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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