Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 4, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121500
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 4, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121500
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 4, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 4, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shildon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22831 26422
Details
NZ 22 NW SHILDON MAIN STREET (East side)
4/75 No. 4 (Midland Bank)
II
Bank. Dated 1899 on doorway to right return. Ashlar sandstone ground floor and dressings. First floor and returns of narrow red brick in English garden wall bond. Graduated green slate roof with brick chimneys. Arts and Crafts style with Art Nouveau details.
2-storey front of 4 narrow bays has low plinth. Moulded, Tudor-arched doorway, in right bay, and rectangular panel above with carved foliage relief. Three 4-light hollow-chamfered, mullioned windows, with double transoms, to left. Entablature with wide frieze above. First floor has a pair of 4-light mullioned- and-transomed windows. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gable parapets and overhanging eaves. End chimneys, rising from external stacks on return walls, have entablatures with wide friezes.
Triple-gabled right return. Right bay has moulded doorway under segmental arch with shaped, dated lintel. Scattered 2- and 4-light windows. Brattished section of bracketed gutter beneath small, central gable. Left gable has external stack on mid-wall corbel, with recessed, round-arched panel. (The Architects were "Brierley and Rutherford of York and the building was originally used for the York and County Bank).
Listing NGR: NZ2283126422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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