Listed Building record MDO15465 - Lloyds Bank, 45 and 47 Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth

Italianate Baroque, circa 1875, 3 storeys, entirely faced in golden Ham Hill stone towards Old Christchurch Road and on splayed corner (answering similar splay of Barclays Bank). Albert Road flank in buff brick with generous Ham Hill dressings. Rusticated quoins. Old Christchurch Road front 4 windows wide: rusticated ground floor, round-headed windows, heavy dentil cornice, lst floor windows with individual balustered balconies and triangular pediments on console brackets. Heavy cornices also to lst and 2nd floors, with panelled roof parapet. Splayed corner rusticated on all 3 floors and with rounded corners. Open segmental pediment with dentils over main entrance continuous with cornice over ground floor, foliage capitals to rusticated pilasters continued as frieze over door, door frame round-arched with continuous fluted moulding interrupted by criss-cross wreaths end sculptured keystone. Albert Road front, 5 windows wide, has 2 subsidiary entrances, one in a slightly projecting bay, the other in a 2-storey rear extension. Banking hall has panelled ceiling, egg-and-dart and dentil cornice, and flowery swags over window frames, space divided in two by screen of fluted columns and square piers.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

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