Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lloyds Bank
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1999
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48207, -3.17710
- Cadw reference
- 21683
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
To R of Principality House.
History
Late C19 bank building.
Exterior
Four storeys plus attic; 3 bays. Dutch Renaissance style. Portland stone with granite bank front. Central attic dormer with Dutch gable flanked by camber-headed dormers. Upper floors have windows grouped in pairs between relief panels; between 2nd and 3rd floors; between 1st and 2nd floors, band of male and female terms separated by relief panels. Ground floor bank front with grey Tuscan columns superimposed on red granite arches; entrance in R bay.
Reason for designation
Elaborate late Victorian commercial building.
Nearby in the register
- Nos.24 & 26 Queen Street ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
- Frontage of former Marments Department Store at Queen's West Shopping PrecinctCommercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Andrews BuildingsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.