Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lloyds Bank
Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lampeter, Ceredigion, designated on 11 March 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1992
- Locality
- Lampeter
- Community
- Lampeter
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.11280, -4.07983
- Cadw reference
- 10441
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on street line opposite Royal Oak Hotel.
History
Mid C19 bank
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.
Nearby in the register
- The Royal Oak P HCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tenovus/Pet ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Black Lion Hotel, including service range to leftCommercialunder 1 mi
- The EmporiumCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.