Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
13990
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998
Name of Property
Lloyd's Bank
Address
1 Mount Stuart Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Butetown
Town
Locality
Easting
319001
Northing
174712
Street Side
Location
At the NE corner of the square opposite Barclays Bank and the former Coal Exchange building.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
1891. By E W M Corbett, architect.
Exterior
Three storey Italianate Bank building in grey coursed stone with bathstone dressings. Ground floor in bathstone. Seven bays to E, and 5 bays to N (extra bay on N ground floor), with single splayed corner bay, slightly recessed. Chimneys in yellow brick with bathstone cornices.
Entablature with heavy cornice; on second floor, square headed windows with shouldered architraves with fluting over. Sill band below.
On first floor, square headed windows with triangular pediments on narrow pilasters and brackets. Ground floor has round headed windows between pilasters with overall banded rustication. Plinth with ventilation grilles. Rectangular doorway in corner bay has entablature with pulvinated frieze supported on short granite columns on high plinths.
Interior
Banking hall entered through triangular wooden lobby. Dark oak panelleing and counter, and original partitions to office. Roman Doric columns support beams with egg and dart decoration. Simpler ceiling treatment continues in offices.
Reason for designation
A well composed Italianate commercial building on important corner site facing Cardiff Exchange. Group value.
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