Building record TQ 55 SW 390 - 83, High Street, Sevenoaks

A purpose-built bank designed by T.M. Wilson in Jacobean style and built in 1928, it has three elevations and is laid out on ground and mansard floors. The main entrance and two double-height windows face Market Place to the south, one double-height window fronts High Street, and another elevation backs onto an alleyway to The Shambles. It has red rustic semi-faced brick walls on a dressed Portland stone dado, and the handsome windows have square panes in lead casements with moulded stone mullions and transoms and quoin style surrounds. The entrance has moulded stone jambs and head and Doric style based pilasters with bases, frieze, cornice and broken curved pediment with stone carved "Lloyds" shield in the centre. The door is modern glazed. Dressed Portland stone dado and parapet with moulded coping and decorative corbels. There are two rainwater down-pipes and decorated hoppers at each end of the High Street elevation. The roof has plain clay tiles to main roof and dormers, each with square pane lead casements and tiled cheeks. Occupied by Lloyds Bank. (1)

<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.