Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 49 AND 51, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282312
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 49 AND 51, CORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282312
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 49 AND 51, CORN 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, 49 AND 51, CORN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58826 73021
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/11/571 (North West side) Nos.49 AND 51 Midland Bank
GV II
Bank. 1922. By Whinney, Son and Austin Hall. Portland ashlar with a grey granite plinth and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Edwardian Baroque. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site has a 1-window corner bay and 7-window left return; moulded plinth and sill band, banded ground floor to a moulded plat band, the first floor has banded in antis pilasters and right-hand 1-window banded section, with Corinthian attached columns to an entablature and dentil cornice, set forward to the antae, with pedimented dormers separated by a balustrade. The corner has a full-height drum set back with a domed attic storey: a distyle-in-antis entrance with Tuscan columns to an entablature and dentil cornice, and C20 doors. Tripartite windows above have guilloche moulding to the mullions, with architraves and dentil cornices, beneath an attic with sculptures of 2 boys holding a thick festoon under a clock face and winged putto. The dome has consoles separated by a heavy rope moulding, festoon and cornice, with lead cartouches, ribbed dome and finial. Keyed semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have coved surrounds to windows with blue glass margin panes; a small right-hand doorway has large split key, beneath an oculus. First-floor windows have architraves with raised aprons and first-floor dentil cornices; 6/9-pane first-floor and 6/6-pane second floor horned sashes. Dormers have 3/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. An old-fashioned design but appropriate in making use of an important corner site in the financial centre of the city. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 18).
Listing NGR: ST5879072998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 18
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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