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Lloyd's Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Frome, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.231 / 51°13'51"N

Longitude: -2.3214 / 2°19'17"W

OS Eastings: 377652

OS Northings: 148026

OS Grid: ST776480

Mapcode National: GBR 0S9.MXF

Mapcode Global: VH97D.QB35

Plus Code: 9C3V6MJH+9C

Entry Name: Lloyd's Bank

Listing Date: 16 February 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1345501

English Heritage Legacy ID: 266248

ID on this website: 101345501

Location: Frome, Somerset, BA11

County: Somerset

District: Mendip

Civil Parish: Frome

Built-Up Area: Frome

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


1.
5363
MARKET PLACE (South-east side)

ST 7748 SE 5/371
Lloyd's Bank


GV II


2.
Includes No 25 Cheap Street. Circa 1840s altered 1874 as Wilts and Dorset Bank.
Architect: probably G M Silley. Builders: Carr and Pickford. Large 3 storey
Italianate corner block. Ashlar 3 4 bays. Bracket cornice and panelled parapet;
moulded string over 1st floor. North-east elevation retains 3 original glazing bar
sash windows (other 3 blank) in shaped architrave surrounds, Main front has plate
glass sashes, 1st floor surrounds altered with cornices, keys and dropped acanthus
capitals. Set back Corinthian Pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors on corner. Ground
floor projects into street with rounded corner (with entrance), bracket cornice, and
panelled piers to balustrade over; this feature is in rusticated ashlar, 3 windows
flanked by acanthus capped Pilasters; segmental arched entrance with curved spandrels,
frieze and parapet, head keystone and swagged floral caps to nook shafts.
Interior: grand row of Ionic columns to counter, enriched cornices.


Listing NGR: ST7765248026

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