Description

ROTHBURY HIGH STREET NU 0501 (North side) 25/287 Lloyds Bank GV II

Bank, c.1900. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor, some pink sandstone dressings; red clay tile roof. Centre 2 storeys + attics, 3 bays, flanked by slightly-projecting 3-storey end bays. Plinth. End bays have double panelled doors under radial fanlights; plate-glass sashes above sunk aprons with carved sandstone panels; all ground-floor openings round-arched with keystones; dentil cornice. On far left additional half-bay, to ground floor only, with vertical-panelled door and overlight in keyed surround under cornice. 1st floor has sash windows with small-paned upper leaves, in eared architraves with swept feet, carved friezes and alternating segmental and triangular pediments; modillion cornice. Similar sashes above, those in end bays in keyed and shouldered architraves with shaped swept feet, swell frieze and dentil cornices; intermediate windows with keyed raised stone surrounds in half dormers with semicircular pediments. Mansard roofs to main span and end bays; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Rainwater pipes with ornamental heads in re-entrant angles.

Listing NGR: NU0570301757

External Links

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