Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, COURT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297387
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, COURT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297387
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, COURT 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, COURT SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40282 55584
Details
CARLISLE
NY4055NW COURT SQUARE 671-1/12/104 (South side) 13/11/72 Midland Bank
GV II
Bank. 1865-7 for the Cumberland Union Banking Company by Daniel Birkett of Carlisle and Liverpool. Calciferous sandstone ashlar on rusticated plinth, with pilastered quoins, pilasters, string courses and bracketed cornice under open balustraded parapet. Graduated greenslate roof partly hipped; vestiges of ashlar ridge chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 4 bays to each facade (one facing onto Botchergate) with angled bay on corner. C20 angled panelled door and glazed fanlight in tetrastyle porch with modillioned cornice under balustraded balcony. Right C20 panelled door in stone architrave under round-headed quoined arch; inscribed over door C.U.B.C.. Large round-headed ground-floor casements divided by pilasters and under carved-head keystones. Upper-floor windows are sashes with segmental and round arches divided by paired columns. Over the entrance is a triparitite window with columned shaped pediment. Corner attic shaped pedimental dormer. INTERIOR detail hidden by modern fascias. Carlisle Journal (1865) gives proposals for new bank, which because of a bricklayers' strike was not opened until 1867 (Carlisle Journal, 1867). Plans dated 1865 are in Cumbria County Record Office, CA/E4/711. (Carlisle Journal: 1 August 1865; Carlisle Journal: 24 September 1867).
Listing NGR: NY4028255584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carlisle Journal in 1 August, (1865)
Carlisle Journal in 24 September, (1867)
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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