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BOSTON TF3244SE MARKET PLACE 716-1/7/115 (West side) 14/02/75 No.51 Lloyds Bank GV II Bank. 1864 with minor C20 alterations. Gault brick with ashlar dressings. Low slate roof behind parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 6-bay front with ashlar plinth, vermiculated ashlar rustication to ground floor, sill bands, heavy stone cornice, moulded balusters and stone panels to parapet. Partly external wall stacks with dentilled stone courses. To left a doorway with elliptical arched head with heavy console keystone dated 1864. The stone panel above the door carved and with inscription 'Bank'. C20 door flanked by detached columns with foliate capitals, with guilloche, oak leaf and bay leaf carving around the door. To right 5 plain sashes with carved keystones. Right-hand window deepened to take automatic teller. To 1st floor 5 plain sashes with moulded surrounds on tabs, and with cornices. 5 similar smaller windows to top floor on tabs without cornices. North front to Paradise Row of 2 storeys and 4 bays, is also dated 1864 INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this bank was built for the local Garfit and Claypon's bank, when it moved from its original High Street site in 1864. Listing NGR: TF3272644146

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