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Description: Lloyds Bank

Address: Lloyds Bank Plc 9 Town Hall Street Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire HX6 2DZ

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Hall Street (north side)

Full description:
Bank. Probably 1870's. Ashlar, roof not visible. 2-storeys, 3 bays plus rounded corner bay rising as 2-stage tower. Italianate style. Plinth, bays defined by rusticated quoins, punch-dressed to ground floor. Tall round-arched openings. Central bay has a triple window to each floor, the lights separated by pilasters and with keystones and bracketed cornices. The first-floor window is more elaborate and has balcony and segmental pediment over central light. Outer bays break forward slightly. Each has doorway, that to left now window, with keyed moulded architrave and window above with bracketed cill and consoled segmental pediment. Dentilled cornice. Parapet, balustraded over outer bays, with coping and vase finials. Stacks between bays 1 and 2 and to right end. Tower on left: first stage (the height of ground and first floors) has rusticated stone to lower half and Venetian window to upper half with colonnettes, pilasters, balustrade on consoles, cornice and segmental pediment. Cornice as main block; balustrade with elaborate festoon over centre; cornice. Top stage has 6 faces, separated by ionic pilasters, each with an arched niche with elaborate architrave and head keystone. South-west niche has clock in leaf surround; other niches each have a 2-light opening with colonnettes and decorative iron grilles and tympanum. Entablature with dentil cornice. Ribbed stone dome with pilasters rising into brackets supporting central finial. The building was formerly the Town Hall, although it was never in fact owned by the town. When originally built it had a symmetrical plan with a balancing wing returning along Hollins Mill Lane (now demolished). The clock was paid for by public subscription (Civil Society, p5). Sowerby Bridge Civic Society, (Sowerby Bridge Trail).