The Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1978. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
The Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- upper-newel-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1978
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- The Midland Bank, 14, Fawcett Street, SR1 1SW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 397 570
- Coordinates
- 54.90658, -1.38148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Bank is a bank building constructed in 1902 by W.B. Brierley of York for the York City and County Bank. It features a grey granite ground floor with ashlar above and a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high and has five windows across and six down, with a narrow canted corner bay. The end and corner bays are banded. The intermediate bays are adorned with a giant attached Corinthian Order, topped by a heavy cornice with modillions. The entablature breaks forward at the ends and back at the corners. There is a door, now blocked, located on the angle below an oriel window supported by long brackets. The ground floor displays heavy pulvinated banded rustication, and the windows are deeply recessed beneath mask corbels featuring triple keystones. The first-floor windows also have similar keystones in pilasters, complete with entablatures, bracketed pediments, and balustraded balconies. The second-floor windows are framed with architraves and bracketed sills.
Local climate
The Midland Bank sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 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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