Lloyds Bank, 139-141 Manchester Road Broadheath
Bank and Post Office. 1902 above doorway, 1903 on fireplace. Thomas Worthington and Son. Ashlar, brick and slate roof. 4 bays, 3 storeys with banking hall on ground floor and wings to the rear of bays 1 and 4. Ashlar ground floor with semi-circular headed doorway to bay 1 with coffered soffit and elaborate cartouche in place of a keystone. Raised lettering beside the archivolt reads "FORMERLY CUNLIFFE BROOKS & CO". Bays 2 and 3 have 3-light window openings with stone mullions, semi-elliptical heads and keystones, and bay 4 is similar but houses the Post Office shop front. Above a stone cornice the upper storeys are recessed in the centre bays, have stone quoins and an eaves cornice. Bays 1 and 4 each have 2 cross-windows with architrave surround to each floor, and bays 2 and 3 have 2- storey canted bay-windows with mullion and transom windows. In between them is an elaborate heraldic cartouche with the words "Finem respice" inscribed below. Coped gables with kneelers and 2 ridge stacks with stone bands and cornices. Banking hall has good coffered ceiling, stone fireplace, glazed tiles, doors, ironmongery etc.
Reference RIBA Journal 14 August 1939 page 950-952
Reference Lloyds Bank Archives: Book no. 779, pp.61,67,78,90.