Midland Bank

1. 5111 MARKET STREET BD1 (east side)

No 47 SE 1633 SW 36/833 (Midland Bank)

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1. Corner site with Bank Street. Circa 1900 neo Baroque but quite restrained detail. Four storey and mansard attic. Ashlar with horizontal grooving to ground floor, struck into window arches; grooved quoin pilasters to upper floors. Cornice over ground floor from which rises engaged Roman Ionic colonnade double columns to corners on both fronts, carried up to entablature with modillion bracket cornice over second floor. The colonnades articulate 4 windows to Market Street and 6 to Bank Street. The third floor attic storey is articulated by panelled pilasters, dentil secondary cornice broken forward over them and over window heads. Pedimented dormers in mansard roof. The corner has an inset bow, the second floor consisting of a set back drum, buttressed by 2 large scrolls, with dentil cornice below finialed lead dome. Round headed ground floor windows; architrave surrounds to first and second floor windows, gutter to sills; corner first floor window similar with addition of profile scrolls and the second floor window above has a cartouche crest set in frieze. Fluted architrave surround to corner entrance - pedimented doorway at end of Bank Street front. Good banking hall, the ceiling divided into large rectangular compartments: Greek key bands, guilloche soffits to beans and dentil strings. The ceiling is supported centrally by a range of giant Roman Doric columns. Important corner site.

Listing NGR: SE1643433087