Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW HIGH STREET
930-1/10/52 (North side)
22/06/78 No.29
Lloyds Bank

II

Bank. c1870. Limestone ashlar, slate roof with coped gables
and moulded ashlar stacks to left of ridge and left gable end.
Classical, mainly Palladian-influenced style. Double-depth
plan with rear extensions.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 6-window range. The right-hand range is
stepped slightly back over a flat-arched carriage entrance
with C20 iron gates. Dentilled cornice and parapet; C20
2-light casement windows to the 2nd floor; 2 moulded string
courses, one at sill level; pedimented horned 6/6-pane sash
windows with dentilled cornices to shouldered architraves and
sill string course to the 1st floor; wide platband over
chamfered rustication to the ground floor; chamfered voussoirs
to C20 windows; Tuscan doorcase with flat pilasters and
cornice to a C20 door.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: in 1914 Lloyd's Bank took over the Wilts and Dorset
Bank and in 1918 the Capital and Counties Bank consolidated
them in this building.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 112;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire:
London: 1967-1975: 172).

Listing NGR: ST9205873347

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558454

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)