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.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11960
Building Number
21
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/03/1992
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Lloyds Bank
Address
21 Stepney Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanelli
Town
Locality
Easting
250701
Northing
200360
Street Side
Location
Situated on street line opposite end of Vaughan Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Exterior
Circa 1920 bank building in Portland stone, palazzo style, with 3-storey, 5-window front, big modillin cornice, balustraded parapet, slate roof and tall corniced end stacks. Sash windows to upper floors, linked vertically, the outer windows narrower than centre 3. Ground floor is arcaded with outer doors in big open-pedimented doorcases. Three centre windows with moulded arches, triple keystones and piers with moulded bases and imposts. C20 glazing, sills and wall beneath slightly recessed. Outer doorways have piers enriched by added panelled pier carrying big scrolled brackets to open pediment, moulded arches and triple keystones to doors. C20 doors and fanlights. A heavy moulded cornice runs across at level of pediment bases, pediments rise up to touch sill-course of first floor. Sunk panels beneath three centre first floor windows with 'Lloyds Bank Limited' in bronze letters. First floor has outer 10-pane windows with flat cornices and centre 15-pane windows with pediments, reaching up to sills of upper windows. Upper floor has outer 8-pane windows and centre 12-pane in plain moulded architraves.
Interior
Bracketed cornice, panelled ceiling in four large panels and walls dividing into panels, with depressed arched heads each side, and arched heads to rear.
Reason for designation
A dignified example of inter-War classical design.
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