Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE CORN STREET, Centre
901-1/11/571 (North West side)
Nos.49 AND 51
Midland Bank

GV II

Bank. 1922. By Whinney, Son and Austin Hall. Portland ashlar
with a grey granite plinth and slate mansard roof.
Double-depth plan. Late Edwardian Baroque. 3 storeys, attic
and basement; 3-window range.
A corner site has a 1-window corner bay and 7-window left
return; moulded plinth and sill band, banded ground floor to a
moulded plat band, the first floor has banded in antis
pilasters and right-hand 1-window banded section, with
Corinthian attached columns to an entablature and dentil
cornice, set forward to the antae, with pedimented dormers
separated by a balustrade.
The corner has a full-height drum set back with a domed attic
storey: a distyle-in-antis entrance with Tuscan columns to an
entablature and dentil cornice, and C20 doors. Tripartite
windows above have guilloche moulding to the mullions, with
architraves and dentil cornices, beneath an attic with
sculptures of 2 boys holding a thick festoon under a clock
face and winged putto. The dome has consoles separated by a
heavy rope moulding, festoon and cornice, with lead
cartouches, ribbed dome and finial.
Keyed semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have coved
surrounds to windows with blue glass margin panes; a small
right-hand doorway has large split key, beneath an oculus.
First-floor windows have architraves with raised aprons and
first-floor dentil cornices; 6/9-pane first-floor and 6/6-pane
second floor horned sashes. Dormers have 3/6-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. An old-fashioned design
but appropriate in making use of an important corner site in
the financial centre of the city.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 18).

Listing NGR: ST5879072998

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571274

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