Midland Bank
MIDLAND BANK, 2 AND 4, PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address:
- MIDLAND BANK, 2 AND 4, PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387620
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Midland Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDLAND BANK, 2 AND 4, PROMENADE
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, 2 AND 4, PROMENADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 94946 22487
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9422SE PROMENADE 630-1/13/728 (South East side) 14/12/83 Nos.2 AND 4 Midland Bank
GV II
Banking hall. 1880, for the Worcester City and County Bank. Architect WH Knight. Ashlar with pink granite columns and slate mansard roof; end brick and ashlar stacks to each range. Built in a florid French Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 1 (to angle) + 4 first-floor windows with 2-storey and attic, 3 first-floor window range to right. Ground-floor windows divided by channelled pilaster strips ornamented with swagged corbels to cornice over ground floor, cross mullion windows with decorative carved floral panels over to ground-floor frieze and with carved panels and bracket cornices over the first-floor windows. Continuous carved second-floor sill band. Windows to second floor set in recesses. Crowning modillion cornice and balustraded parapet throughout. 2 first-floor oriels to right (one to main range, one to lower range), capped by coats of arms and strapwork and have mottoes. Further similar oriel to chamfered corner at left, with bank entrance beneath between columns with floral capitals: panelled double doors with blind fanlight. Roof dormers to attics, those to main range behind balustrade, otherwise with 2-light mullion-and-transom windows and pediments. Left return has similar facade. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Promenade was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue connecting the Colonnade in High Street to the Sherborne Spa (on the site of the Queen's Hotel (qv)). Forms a group with Nos 6-24 (even) Promenade (qv). (Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: 1993-; The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 146).
Listing NGR: SO9495222492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 146
Sampson, A, Blake, S, A Cheltenham Companion, (1993)
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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