Nos 34 and 36 (Former Bank Building and Attached Boundary Wall) is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1990. Bank building, boundary wall.
Nos 34 and 36 (Former Bank Building and Attached Boundary Wall)
- WRENN ID
- little-moulding-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1990
- Type
- Bank building, boundary wall
- Address
- Nos 34 and 36 (Former Bank Building and Attached Boundary Wall), High Street, New Mills
- OS grid reference
- SK 000 856
- Coordinates
- 53.36777, -2.0008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 34 and 36 form a commercial building above cottages, originally a bank building and associated housing. The banking hall was created by remodelling and extending earlier cottages in the 18th century, with further alterations in the 19th century. The banking hall itself dates to 1862.
The north-west elevation is constructed of regularly coursed gritstone in narrow courses, with a plinth moulded at the banking hall end. Gritstone ashlar dressings are used throughout, with particularly decorative detailing to the banking hall, which features a moulded eaves cornice. The roof is slated and stone slated, with a stone ridge stack. The north-west end has a three-bay range where commercial premises replaced a dwelling; a single first-floor sash window is set beneath a wedge lintel, and two tall semi-circular-headed windows have a slender timber mullion dividing the lights and a transom below a fanlight.
The advanced, hipped-roofed banking hall has an arcaded front with five semi-circular full-height windows, a moulded frieze, and a boldly oversailing dentilled eaves cornice. The ashlar piers between the windows have deeply jointed detailing and rise from a broad cill band with brackets. A lower entrance porch is located at the south-east end, with a shallow hipped roof and semi-circular-headed doorway. An inscription above the doorway reads "MANCHESTER COUNTY BANK LTD 1862," accompanied by a carved and decorative tympanium with a band course linking the flat head to the double doorway. Each door has four raised and fielded panels.
Attached to the side is a boundary wall with a ramped parapet, a square terminal pier, moulded coping, and the base of a cast iron lamp on top of the pier. The rear elevation is three storeys on the north-west part, which is constructed from 18th-century dwelling with weathered masonry; three semi-circular-headed windows are on the second floor. The lower two-storey section contains three two-light flush mullioned windows, now with 20th-century casements. At the first-floor level are two ground-floor doorways with plain surrounds and planked doors, each flanked by two-light mullioned windows also fitted with 20th-century casements. The banking hall interior retains panelled ceiling beams and egg-and-dart cornices.
Local climate
Nos 34 and 36 (Former Bank Building and Attached Boundary Wall) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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