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
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
Lloyd's Bank and Chambers
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Location
To right (N) of entrance block of Castle Arcade.
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.
Reason for designation
Ambitious late C19 classical commercial building.
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