Midland Bank

The Midland Bank, built in 1899, is a bank located on Main Street in Shildon. It features a ground floor made of ashlar sandstone with red brick above, arranged in English garden wall bond. The roof is covered with graduated green slate and has brick chimneys. The building is designed in the Arts and Crafts style, incorporating Art Nouveau details.

The two-storey front has four narrow bays and a low plinth. The right bay contains a moulded, Tudor-arched doorway with a rectangular panel above that features carved foliage relief. To the left, there are three 4-light hollow-chamfered, mullioned windows with double transoms. Above these is an entablature with a wide frieze. The first floor has a pair of 4-light mullioned and transomed windows. The steeply-pitched roof has coped gable parapets and overhanging eaves, with end chimneys that rise from external stacks on the return walls, also featuring entablatures with wide friezes.

The right return has a triple-gabled design, with the right bay showcasing a moulded doorway beneath a segmental arch and a shaped, dated lintel. There are scattered 2- and 4-light windows, and a brattished section of bracketed gutter beneath a small central gable. The left gable features an external stack on a mid-wall corbel, along with a recessed, round-arched panel. The architects of this building were Brierley and Rutherford of York, and it was originally used for the York and County Bank.