LLOYD'S BANK

LLOYD'S BANK, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5, SIDNEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331920
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: LLOYD'S BANK
Statutory Address:: LLOYD'S BANK, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5, SIDNEY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331920
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Aug-1992
List Entry Name:: LLOYD'S BANK
Statutory Address 1:: LLOYD'S BANK, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5, SIDNEY STREET

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LLOYD'S BANK, 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5, SIDNEY STREET

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 45067 58494

Details

The following building shall be upgraded to II* (star):-

- SIDNEY STREET (east side) Nos 1 to 5 (consec) TL 4558 NW 4/666 TL 4558 SW 7/666 (Lloyd's Bank) II -

and the entry shall be amended to read:

SIDNEY STREET TL 4558 NW/TL 4558 SW (east side) 4/666 and 7/666 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Lloyd's Bank GV II*

Bank. 1891 by A and P Waterhouse for Foster and Co bankers; extended in 1935 by Munro Cautley and Barefoot of Ipswich. Limestone ashlar with bands of red brick with tile roof; limestone ashlar extension with stone tile roof. Plan: Situated on large corner site with 1935 extension on apex of corner at south end. Dutch Renaissance style with neo-Tudor 1935 extension. Exterior: 3 storeys and attics. Symmetrical 1:2:1 bay Sidney Street elevation, the end bays break forward with elaborate Dutch gables with pilasters pinnacles stone balcony to second floor windows and consoles to scrolled pediments of attic windows; similar pediments to centre first floor windows; pairs of round arch ground floor windows; to right (S) round arch doorway with Jacobean Ionic column, scrolled broken pediment and niche above with putto, above which is tall, elaborate hexagonal clock tower with lantern over and tiled spire with lead lucarnes and little lantern at apex. The east side facing Hobson Street has a fine and complex elevation pilastered and gabled in ashlar with red brick bands. The 1935 south corner extension is relatively plain, gabled to left and right of larger corner gable which has 2- storey oriel on lst and 2nd floors; stone mullion-transom windows with leaded panes. Interior: 1891 part has very fine tiled interior with an Italianate octagonal banking hall; the arcade supporting a great dome with a glazed lantern above; the whole, except for the lantern, faced in moulded glazed tiles (probably by Burmantofts) with classical motifs. Original joinery includes curved counters with panelled fronts in arcade, doors and doorcases, a Gothic clock; tessellated floors. Sources: J Booker, Temples of Mammon, p185, Buildings of England, p245.

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SIDNEY STREET 1. 942 (East Side) ------------- Nos 1 to 5 (consec) (Lloyd's Bank) TL 4558 NW 4/666 TL 4558 SW 7/666 II 2. 1891. Alfred and Paul Waterhouse, architects. Renaissance style. Built of limestone with bands of red brick. 3 storeys. The main portion is symmetrical with two elaborate gables. Ground floor has 4 pairs of round-arched windows. Above are mullion and transom windows. To right is the entrance with round arch and Jocobean Ionic columns. Above is a broken pediment and a statue of a putto. Above this is an octagonal clock tower with tall octagonal roof. Interior of glazed tiles.

Listing NGR: TL4506758494

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Legacy System number:: 47769
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Booker, J, Temples of Mammon , (1990)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 245

Legal

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