Midland Bank

The Midland Bank, located at 47 Market Street, is a Grade II listed building dating from around 1900. It features a neo-Baroque style with restrained detailing. The building stands four storeys tall with a mansard attic, constructed of ashlar stone. The ground floor has horizontal grooving and window arches, while the upper floors are marked by grooved quoin pilasters.

A cornice above the ground floor supports an engaged Roman Ionic colonnade, which consists of double columns at the corners of both street fronts, leading up to an entablature with a modillion bracket cornice over the second floor. The colonnades frame four windows on Market Street and six on Bank Street. The attic storey is defined by panelled pilasters and a dentil secondary cornice that projects over them and the window heads.

The mansard roof features pedimented dormers, and the corner of the building has an inset bow. The second floor includes a set-back drum that is buttressed by two large scrolls, topped with a finialed lead dome. The ground floor has round-headed windows, while the first and second floor windows have architrave surrounds with gutters to the sills. The corner first floor window is similar but includes profile scrolls, and the second floor window above features a cartouche crest in the frieze.

The corner entrance has a fluted architrave surround with a pedimented doorway at the end of the Bank Street front. Inside, the banking hall has a ceiling divided into large rectangular compartments, decorated with Greek key bands and guilloche soffits to the beams, supported by a range of giant Roman Doric columns. This building occupies an important corner site.