Midland Bank

The Midland Bank, located at 141 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough, is a bank building constructed in 1912 by architects T.B. Whinney from London and J. Forbes from Middlesbrough for the London City and Midland Bank. The building is made of brick and faced with sandstone ashlar, featuring a Lakeland slate roof, a copper-roofed lantern, and a flat asphalt-roofed wing. It occupies a corner site and is designed in the Edwardian Classical style, consisting of two storeys and four bays.

The entrance is located at a slightly recessed, chamfered left corner bay, which is flanked by panelled pilasters with enriched escutcheons at their heads, surrounding altered late 20th-century glazing and doors. The right end bay is blank. A continuous late 20th-century fascia sign is applied to the frieze under a modillion cornice that separates the two floors. The first and third bays on the first floor feature canted three-light bay windows, with Composite pilasters between the lights, and a plain frieze and cornice above the middle lights, which have renewed glazing.

The building has deep overhanging eaves supported by shaped brackets. The sprocketed hipped and gabled roof includes three flat-roofed dormers with late 20th-century glazing set in corniced surrounds. A corniced transverse stack is located at the right end. The corner bay features late 20th-century doors and a fanlight within a panelled coved surround, complemented by plain pilasters and an acanthus keystone. The first-floor canted oriel, supported by acanthus consoles and a plain cyma-reversa oversailing, has a similar window beneath a pediment.

At the eaves, a tall octagonal lantern rises, showcasing keyed round-headed openings and moulded impost bands on alternate faces, with inverted consoles at the bases of the other faces. The lantern is topped with a heavily-moulded cornice and an ogee-domed roof with a shaped finial. The similar two-bay left return has a slightly projecting panelled and corniced stack between the bays. There is a one-storey, one-bay rear wing with a deep parapet, while a late 20th-century right extension is noted as not being of special interest.