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Lloyd's Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Benfieldside, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8708 / 54°52'14"N

Longitude: -1.8582 / 1°51'29"W

OS Eastings: 409200

OS Northings: 552896

OS Grid: NZ092528

Mapcode National: GBR HDG3.HR

Mapcode Global: WHC40.FTDW

Plus Code: 9C6WV4CR+8P

Entry Name: Lloyd's Bank

Listing Date: 6 June 1951

Last Amended: 21 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1240563

English Heritage Legacy ID: 439041

ID on this website: 101240563

Location: Shotley Bridge, County Durham, DH8

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Benfieldside

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Consett

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Benfieldside

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 05 SE CONSETT SNOW'S GREEN ROAD
(West side)
Shotley Bridge
5/83 (inset) Lloyd's Bank (Fomerely
6/6/51 listed as Lloyds Bank and
manager's house)
GV II
Town Hall, with bank on ground floor from 1872, and concert room above; now bank.
Circa 1860 by Smith and Son. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings
and plinth; Welsh slate roof. Gothic style. 2 storeys, 3 bays, and 3 lower
storeys, 7 bays in returns. Steps up to paired panelled doors and overlights
flanked and separated by shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, supporting large,
many-moulded stone brackets and hipped slated hood. Canted bay window above,
breaking into hood, has 3 tall cusped lancets under 2-centred-arched surrounds;
side bays have flat-2-centred-arched ground-floor windows and cusped lancets
above. Impost, floor and sill bands, and top band cornice. Tall hipped roof
over entrance bay with slate-hung square tower and pyramidal spire,all with fish-
scale bands. Left return has similar treatment to cusped lancets in long first-
floor window in canted 2-storey projection; plainer central full-height canted
bay. Hipped roofs over canted bays. Coped ridge chimneys.
Source: G. Neasham, History and Biographies of West Durham, Sunderland 1880
Vol.V, 85.


Listing NGR: NZ0920052896

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