The Midland Bank

BOSTON

TF3243NE HIGH STREET 716-1/10/69 (West side) 14/02/75 The Midland Bank (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (West side) premises occupied by Midland Bank)

GV II

Bank. 1864 with minor C20 alterations. For Gee, Wise and Gee. Stucco with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey, 5-bay front with parapet having heavy modillion cornice and small dentil cornice. Ground floor in channelled rustication, deep moulded sill band to 1st floor, dentilled cornice between 1st and 2nd floor, 2nd floor has angle quoins. To ground floor, doorway to left has round-arched head with shield-bearing keystone, carved console brackets support dentilled cornice with decorative cast-iron guard to 1st floor windows. Engaged granite colonnettes to spandrels with foliated capitals. Panelled door with fanlight. To right 4 semicircular headed windows with female mask keystones. To 1st floor 5 semicircular headed windows with keystones and moulded heads joined by a string at impost height. Recessed panels between windows. To 2nd floor 5 plain sashes with segmental heads, moulded surrounds and ramped bases. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the banking company of Gee, Wise and Gee failed 10 years after the building was completed and the bank was taken over by the Lincoln and Lindsay Bank.

Listing NGR: TF3271543996