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
13729
Building Number
27  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/05/1975  
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999  
Name of Property
Lloyd's Bank and Chambers  
Address
27 High Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Castle  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
318117  
Northing
176408  
Street Side
W  
Location
To right (N) of entrance block of Castle Arcade.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
1892, Architect, J A Chatwin of Birmingham.  

Exterior
Classical stone building. Four storeys. five windows. Arched attic windows and crowning balustrade, lion heads, moulded keystones. Giant order of fluted Corinthian pilasters through 1st and 2nd storeys; entablature. Second floor windows rectangular headed: 1st floor windows with triangular pediments, and convex stone balconies. Rusticated arcaded ground storey; 3 windows to centre with scrolled keystones, similar doorway to L; to R, elaborate bank entrance with heavy lion-head keystone, relief spandrels, grey Bessbrook granite doorway.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Ambitious late C19 classical commercial building.  

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