Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lloyd's Bank
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46556, -3.16741
- Cadw reference
- 13990
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the NE corner of the square opposite Barclays Bank and the former Coal Exchange building.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Phoenix BuildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call Box adjoining E Side Of The Former Coal ExchangeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- The Point (Formerly St Stephen's Church)Recreationalunder 1 mi
- Coptic HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.