Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 9, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290452
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 9, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290452
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 9, THE SQUARE
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, 9, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48038 01327
Details
BEAMINSTER THE SQUARE ST 4701/4801 (NORTH SIDE) 12.6.53 7/160 No 9 (Midland Bank) GV II*
Town House, now premises of the Midland Bank. C17, with mid C18 facing. Lias ashlar walls with rusticated stone quoins. Modillion stone cornice and parapet over with pilaster divisions. Slate roof with stone gable- copings. Stone stacks, 2 at left hand gable, with a projecting stack; one at right hand gable. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, ground floor with 2 balancing rounded bay-windows and glazing-bars. Moulded continuous cornice along the front. Frist floor: 3 sashes and glazing-bars with moulded stone architraves and projecting keys. Stone cills. C18 facade fronting earlier one. West elevation: 2 storeys and attic. Rear gable has stone-coping and one brick stack. Upper floor has 2 2-light stone mullions (ovolos). No labels; replaced by later lintels. Stone fire- place, c.1600, built into the west gable wall at first floor level and not relating to the present stacks. Depressed arch head and recessed spandrels. Interior: mid-chamfered ceiling-beam with straight chamfer in front room, C17. Further chamfered ceiling-beams to rear. Stone fireplace in upper back room with Tudor-arch head. C17 attics at rear with stone-mullion window. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 25(35).
Listing NGR: ST4803701328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395145
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 25
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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