Building record 1202100000 - LLOYDs' BANK, 1 MARKET SQUARE

Summary

Mid-nineteenth century Italian-style bank built in 1853 and extended in 1922

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1117977: NO 1 MARKET SQUARE (DBC2127)

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Type and Period (1)

  • BANK (FINANCIAL) (Built 1853, 19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Grade II. Including No 4 Kingsbury. 1853. Ashlar ground floor, ashlar dressings and quoins to upper floors, Welsh slate roof. Italianate style with ground floor rustication and arched windows, first floor aedicule windows with segmental pediments to most windows, second floor architrave window surrounds. Floor band, modillion cornice. Canted rusticated angle to Market Square with main entrance. Further entrance with cornice on consoles to north projecting wing (B1).
Lloyd Bank of 1853, classical to Italianate with a distinctive chamfered corner of channelled rustication and segmental pediments on consoles to all the first-floor windows. This angled façade was lengthened and broken by a N extension, only slightly differently detailed, in 1922 (B2).

Sources (2)

  • <1>SBC3590 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1973. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. pp23,27.
  • <2>SBC19664 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson. 1994. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p164.

Location

Grid reference SP 81915 13805 (point)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

May 30 2024 4:18PM

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