Description

1. HIGH STREET
5239 (west side)

Nos 165 to 168 (consec)
(Midland Bank Limited)
SU 4111 3/149

II

2.
Built in 1900 by T. B. Whinney in Neo-Baroque style. Corner building. Built
of stone. Three bays to High Street elevation, 6 bays to Albion Place elevation.
Hipped slate roof. Dormers with curved pediments and tall Italianate style
chimney stacks. Elaborate balustrade to High Street elevation. Two cupolas
at corners with 8 Doric columns to each with 4 pediments above, one having
finial the other a weathervane also. Modillion cornices between floors.
First floor windows have Gibbs surrounds with blank shields over keystones.
Curved pediment above corner window. The ground floor has 4 tall engaged
Roman Doric columns. Rusticated round-headed arches with grotesque masks
to keystones. The corner doorcase has an oculus above and open curved pediment
supported by putti and further elaborate blank shield above this. Doorcase
with cornice and console brackets.

Listing NGR: SU4196711506

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26384297

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings