Former bank and bank manager's residence

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SD5329SE 941-1/11/102

PRESTON FISHERGATE (South side) Nos. 39 and 40

(Formerly listed Nos. 39 AND 40 Midland Bank)

27/09/79

II

Bank. 1856-7, by J.H.Park, for the Preston Banking Company. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys and five bays, symmetrical, with rusticated vermiculated quoins, plinth, cornice over ground floor with four bulldog masks, sill-band to second floor, enriched frieze with dentils over, and prominent mutule cornice with 18 masks (carried round the right-hand corner). The ground floor, treated as a five-bay arcade of round-headed arches with vermiculated quoined surrounds and mask keystones, and with festoons between the arches (pendent from the bulldog masks on the cornice), has doorways with panelled doors in the outer bays, and windows with altered glazing in the other bays (all now with modern cashpoints and safes in the aprons). The first floor has round-headed casement windows with pedimented Corinthian architraves (the aprons now concealed by a modern signboard lettered MIDLAND BANK); and the second floor has short segmental-headed casements with shoudered architraves. Chimney at right-hand gable with prominent enriched cornice.

INTERIOR: fine banking hall with Corinthian columns and pilasters, coffered ceiling with dentil frieze, egg-and-dart, foliated modillions; three-bay side-screens of round-headed arches.

Listing NGR: SD5317329962