Description

MIDDLESBROUGH CORPORATION ROAD,
NZ 4920 SE north side.

9/22 Nos. 29 and 31
(Darlington
Building Society).
G.V. II
Including No. 65 Albert Road. Shop and hotel, 1912/13 by Moore and
Archibald Ltd (Middlesbrough), for Freeman Hardy and Willis Ltd. Altered
c.1980 when mansard roof, transverse stacks, dormers and part of parapet,
were removed. Now used as offices. Brick faced in buff terracotta.
Renewed flat roof. Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays and
chamfered right corner bay. Late C20 ground-floor office frontage, under
shallow fascia and cornice. Upper floors: applied Ionic Order in antis and
banded rusticated pilaster strips at ends, under deep overhanging cornice.
Renewed windows in architraves; double keystones, open segmental pediments
in end bays, and central open-pedimented Roman Doric aedicule, on first
floor. Ramped buttresses between recessed attic windows. Cornice and
remains of parapet. Corner bay has similar windows; renewed blank tablet
between floors, on engaged Roman Doric colonnettes flanking first-floor
window. Similar 3-bay right return, fronting Albert Road, has renewed doors
in Roman Doric doorcase, at right of central 3-light mullioned window, on
ground floor.

Listing NGR: NZ4955920407

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429933

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