Midland Bank

NUNEATON NEWDEGATE STREET SP39SE (North side) 2/10005 Midland Bank GV II

Bank. 1898 by H.Goddard of Leicester. Red brick with stone dressings. Slate hipped roof. Brick axial stacks with stone caps with cartouches and cornices. PLAN: Rectangular plan with projecting pavilions on the corners and facing Newdegate Street [south] and Newdegate Place [east]. C20 single storey extension on west side. Baroque/Wrenaissance style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. 1:1:1 bay south elevation and 1:4:1 bay east elevation; the projecting end bays with rusticated quoins and open-bed segmental pediments containing cartouches and festoons; the modillioncornice continuing over centre bays. The ground floor rusticated ashlar on plinth and with entablature supported on rusticated Tuscan columns in the recessed centre bays, the projecting corners with large round-arch doorways with keystones and C20 glazed doors. First floor 6/9-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves linked by stone band. West elevation plainer and with gables and C20 rusticated ashlar single storey extension with round arch windows and entablature. INTERIOR not inspected. The banking halls appear to have been altered by insertion of partitions and suspended ceilings.

Listing NGR: SP3626091870