Numbers 47-57 Street Midland Bank

Numbers 47-57 on Eastgate Street, originally the Grosvenor Club and North and South Wales Bank, now known as Midland Bank, was built between 1883 and 1884 by Douglas and Fordham and enlarged in 1908. The building features a red sandstone and stone-dressed brick exterior topped with a Westmorland green slate roof.

It stands three high storeys tall in a schloss style. The entrance bay is vertically expressed and is flanked by a two-window wing on the west and a three-window wing with a large front gable on the east. The stone first storey includes a modern glazed door set in a moulded case, which has a carved Grosvenor portcullis on the lintel. This level also features mullioned windows with two transoms. Above the door, corbels supporting a canted three-storey oriel bay are adorned with two coats of arms. The first storey frieze on the east wing displays shields representing the arms of the twelve former shires of Wales.

On the second storey, the west bay has a canted oriel beneath a steep hipped roof, while the other windows have mullions and two transoms, with leaded glazing in the upper lights. This level also features a band of blank panel tracery and projecting diapers, enhanced by a coat of arms. The third storey showcases windows with mullions and one transom, all topped with basket arches that hold tracery. Centrally placed on the east wing is the Grosvenor arms, with the year 1883 depicted in gilt metal figures and a corbel table beneath it.

The attic storey is topped with a spire featuring a lead finial over the entrance bay, a shorter spire on the west, and an elaborate shaped gable on the east wing that includes the Grosvenor sheaf, four finials, and a tapering square belfry with a pyramidal roof and lead finial at the back. There are also two shaped chimneys. The east face of the building, which faces the City Wall, is primarily brick, with windows that have brick mullions, stone transoms, and basket-arched upper lights, along with an angled oriel and a Tudor-arched door leading to the wall walk. The interior has not been inspected.