Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 47, MARKET STREET BD1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 47, MARKET STREET BD1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 47, MARKET STREET BD1
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, 47, MARKET STREET BD1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 16434 33087
Details
1. 5111 MARKET STREET BD1 (east side)
No 47 SE 1633 SW 36/833 (Midland Bank)
II
2. Corner site with Bank Street. Circa 1900 neo Baroque but quite restrained detail. Four storey and mansard attic. Ashlar with horizontal grooving to ground floor, struck into window arches; grooved quoin pilasters to upper floors. Cornice over ground floor from which rises engaged Roman Ionic colonnade double columns to corners on both fronts, carried up to entablature with modillion bracket cornice over second floor. The colonnades articulate 4 windows to Market Street and 6 to Bank Street. The third floor attic storey is articulated by panelled pilasters, dentil secondary cornice broken forward over them and over window heads. Pedimented dormers in mansard roof. The corner has an inset bow, the second floor consisting of a set back drum, buttressed by 2 large scrolls, with dentil cornice below finialed lead dome. Round headed ground floor windows; architrave surrounds to first and second floor windows, gutter to sills; corner first floor window similar with addition of profile scrolls and the second floor window above has a cartouche crest set in frieze. Fluted architrave surround to corner entrance - pedimented doorway at end of Bank Street front. Good banking hall, the ceiling divided into large rectangular compartments: Greek key bands, guilloche soffits to beans and dentil strings. The ceiling is supported centrally by a range of giant Roman Doric columns. Important corner site.
Listing NGR: SE1643433087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 336864
- 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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