The Midland Bank
THE MIDLAND BANK, 14, FAWCETT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279926
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- THE MIDLAND BANK, 14, FAWCETT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279926
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MIDLAND BANK, 14, FAWCETT 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:
- THE MIDLAND BANK, 14, FAWCETT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39758 57048
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3957SE FAWCETT STREET 920-1/18/68 (East side) 10/11/78 No.14 The Midland Bank
GV II
Bank. 1902. By WB Brierley of York for the York City and County Bank. Grey granite ground floor; ashlar above; slate roof. 3 storeys, 5x6 windows and narrow canted corner bay. End and corner bays banded. Intermediate bays have giant attached Corinthian Order with heavy modillioned cornice to top entablature which breaks forward at ends and back at corners. Door, now blocked, on angle below oriel with long brackets. Ground floor heavy pulvinated banded rustication; windows deeply recessed below mask corbels of triple keystones. Similar keys to first-floor windows in pilasters with entablatures, bracketed pediments, and balustraded balconies. Second-floor windows have architraves and bracketed sills. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 21).
Listing NGR: NZ3975857048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391446
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983)
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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