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Midland Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4149 / 52°24'53"N

Longitude: -4.0847 / 4°5'4"W

OS Eastings: 258312

OS Northings: 281695

OS Grid: SN583816

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NYSC

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.4KYM

Plus Code: 9C4QCW78+W4

Entry Name: Midland Bank

Listing Date: 24 November 1987

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10233

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300010233

Location: Set into the slope of a continuous row of frontages in the lower part of the street.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

Tagged with: Bank building

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History

Built 1908 to 1910 by Woolfall and Eccles of Liverpool.

Exterior

Edwardian classical 2-storey 3-bay channelled front with polished granite plinth, recessed to centre. Bracket and dentil cornice to the taller ground floor and broken segmental pediment to centre below stepped up parapet and carried on paired Ionic derived columns in antis. Prince of Wales’ feathers and dragon panels to parapet refer to its origins as the ‘Wales bank’; dressed stone chimney stack. Horned small pane sash windows to top floor with lugged and foilage ornamented architraves. Giant lugged and arched headed architraves with keystones below; small pane lunettes to each bay. Pedimented doorcase offset to left with double panelled doors; console bracket keystones over central and right hand 4-light windows with swept up transoms, truncated to right by insertion of cash dispenser.

Interior

Interior considerably altered with insertion of an additional storey into the former banking hall.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

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