Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8571SE COURTENAY STREET
1012-1/13/32 (North West side)
22/03/83 No.41
Lloyds Bank

GV II

Bank on a corner site. c1890. Edwardian Baroque style.
MATERIALS: squared red sandstone to the upper floors, cream
limestone ashlar to the ground floor and dressings, granite
plinth and slate roof with panelled shafts to axial stacks.
PLAN: rectangular, with canted corner.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7-window range, including 4 windows to
left and 2 to right which flank imposing canted entrance bay.
A balustraded parapet with panelled stacks as piers and a
heavy modillion cornice and complex egg-and-dart frieze, spans
both facades.
Upper floors are articulated by a giant order of paired fluted
Corinthian columns. Second floor has moulded sill string
course, bracketed sills and Gibbs surrounds to paired
plate-glass windows. First floor has similar windows in
moulded eared architraves under dentil cornices and alternate
segmental and triangular pediments.
Ground floor, with a granite plinth, is of banded rusticated
ashlar with wide banded pilasters supporting paired columns
above and articulate recessed panels flanked by Corinthian
colonettes with plain shafts.
Recessed panels have plate-glass windows, deep ogee-moulded
sills and voussoirs which reach up to a ground-floor
entablature.
Canted entrance bay has a dentil cornice and pediment over
semicircular recess containing a large projecting clock.
Second floor window has a triangular pediment.
First-floor window has segmental pediment and a corbelled-out
balustraded balcony forming a porch over the entrance which
has an open pediment containing a coat of arms and foliate
spandrels supported by elaborate consoles.
Corinthian columns flank panelled double doors.
INTERIOR: inner lobby and banking hall have open pediments
over panelled doors, egg-and-dart moulded rails to dados,
elaborate panelled plaster ceilings with modillion cornices,
foliate friezes and panelled soffits, supported by Corinthian
columns.

Listing NGR: SX8599671347

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548540

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