Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Bank building. 7 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- bitter-timber-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Spen Valley MP: Kim Leadbeater (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Bank building
- Address
- Midland Bank, 68, Market Place, WF16 0HY
- OS grid reference
- SE 215 234
- Coordinates
- 53.70744, -1.67485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Bank is a bank building located in Heckmondwike, constructed in 1863 in a Classical style. It is built of ashlar stone with rusticated quoins and features a hipped slate roof. The building has three storeys, with a dentilled cornice above the ground floor and a dentilled eaves cornice topped with a balustrade that includes turned balusters and vase acroteria. The facade has four bays, although there are five ground floor windows and one doorway. The left return bay is treated as part of the facade.
The ground floor openings are framed by nook shafted pilasters that support stilted, moulded segmental heads, each featuring large raised keystones. The spandrels are elaborately carved with foliage and grotesques. The first floor windows have square heads, adorned with a guilloche frieze and square brackets that support a canopy. The second floor windows are designed with hollow chamfered reveals, shouldered heads, and aprons. This building occupies an important site in the town centre.
Local climate
Midland Bank receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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