Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
11/03/1992
Date of Amendment
10/02/2012
Name of Property
Lloyds Bank
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated on street line opposite Royal Oak Hotel.
Exterior
House, now bank, with large 3-storey 3-window front in painted roughcast with raised stucco dressings, slate roof and rebuilt end stacks. Windows are large 12-pane sashes with cambered heads and painted sills. Upper windows are smaller and all have shouldered surrounds in stucco, the inner part roughcast subsequently, and a triple keystone. Stucco plinth and 2 sill courses. Centre door in tall cambered-headed surround, C20 door and overlight, set in ponderous late C19 Ionic porch. Two fluted columns, pilaster responds set closely behind, and entablature in three steps, the upper 2 with shallow brackets and all capped by a cast-iron railing in lattice pattern.
Lloyd's Bank includes a low one-window bay to left which follows the design of No 8, The Castle Hotel; 12-pane first-floor sash and 9-pane upper window with stucco voussoirs, doorway below.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as building in a distinguished late Georgian style, prominently sited.
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