The Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Commercial building. 13 related planning applications.
The Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- muffled-hall-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- The Midland Bank, 1 and 2, Prospect Place, DL3 7LQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 288 146
- Coordinates
- 54.52629, -1.55507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Bank, located at Prospect Place, is an early 20th-century commercial building designed in a modified baroque style. The main facade on Bondgate features two and a half storeys with four windows. It has a basement that curves around the corner into Northgate and is constructed of limestone ashlar. The roof is fairly low pitched and covered with slate, featuring a moulded eaves cornice.
At the second floor level, the main entablature projects forward over the second and fourth bays and is supported by engaged Corinthian columns located in the set back third and canted corner bays. The basement is banded and rusticated. The windows are framed in moulded architraves, with the first floor windows having ears, feet, and keystones, while the second and ground floor windows have raised centres, with the ground floor also featuring cornices and pediments. There is only one bay on Northgate, which is similar to the outer bay on Bondgate.
Local climate
The Midland Bank receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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