Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lloyd's Bank
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88085, -5.26530
- Cadw reference
- 12578
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at E end of S side of Cross Square, adjoining No 2 High Street.
History
Mid to late C19 pair of houses converted to single banking premises c.1920.
Exterior
Painted stucco over rubble stone with slate low pitched roof and rendered end stacks. Two storeys, three 12-pane sash windows with slate sills above and altered ground floor with two narrow 12-pane sashes to left and projecting single storey painted stucco bank front across centre and right. Canted entrance across original front door and two window range to right. Leaded top lights. Openings framed by pilasters with moulded caps and bases and pendant labels to necks. Channelled rustication flanking openings and raised aprons below windows. Plinth broken forward under pilasters. Entablature above and balustrated parapet with coped pedestals corresponding to pilasters below. Pedestals with plinths, caps and pendant label blocks. One similar bay in W return. Two rear wings and pointed stair light between.
Apparently a pair of houses called Dewi House and New House, illustrated in post-1912 photo (The Streets of Saint David's, 1977, 18) with stone front, pedimented central doorway and shop front of Owen's Fancy Repository to left. Lloyd's Bank opened in St David's in 1891 in temporary premises, the first bank to open an office in Saint David's.
Reason for designation
Not marked on 1840 Tithe Map.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The City CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 8 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The City CrossCrossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.