Former Midland Bank

This is a former bank, built in 1891 by A N Bromley for the Nottingham Joint Stock Bank. The building is constructed of red brick with stone and gauged brick dressings, set on a rock-faced stone plinth. It has a graduated slate roof with stone-coped gables, tall brick gable stacks with pulvinated stone bands, and a central brick ridge stack with triangular pilaster strips to the sides.

The prominent central tower features a tall pyramidal roof. Flanking the tower is a shaped gable to the south with ridge and eaves finials and, to the north, a terracotta balustrade supported by stone piers topped with large ball finials. The building has seven bays and two storeys plus attics.

The main entrance is a central segment-headed doorcase with alternating gauged brick and stone voussoirs, a moulded stone keyblock, and modern doors and fanlight. Stone pilasters with Ionic capitals, resting on moulded corbels, rise from either side of the doorcase, supporting a bay window above. A large moulded stone corbel above the doorcase also supports the bay window, featuring a carving and the date '1891'. Carved shields are positioned in the spandrels of the doorcase. The north side features three segment-headed windows with similar mouldings, plate glass windows, central moulded keystones, and moulded impost bands, separated by pilasters. To the south of the door is a smaller doorcase with two semi-circular openings set within a pedimented, pilastered aedicule, bearing the shield 'NJSB'. A pulvinated stone frieze with a dentilled cornice runs along the top floor, stepping forward over each pilaster.

The upper floor incorporates a central canted bay window with mullion and transomed lights, and recessed and chamfered mullion and transomed windows flanked by single-light transomed windows. A moulded sill stringcourse runs around the building, and full-height pilasters, similar to those below, are positioned between the windows. The southern gable has two single-light windows within a pilastered stone aedicule, topped by a Dutch gable with a stone shield inscribed 'Est 1865'. The central tower has two richly moulded segment-headed single-light windows with pilasters and canted iron railings to the front. The building is included on the list for group value.