Midland Bank

PERSHORE

SO9445 HIGH STREET 648-1/5/113 (East side) 11/02/65 No.5 Midland Bank (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Midland Bank)

GV II

House now bank. C18 partly remodelled C20. Red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings, rusticated stucco ground floor and quoins. High brick and stone parapet has stone coping with deep moulded eaves cornice concealing plain tile roof; 2 lateral brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 5-window range. Windows on 1st and 2nd floors have: 6/6 sashes; segmental-headed moulded architraves; deep, gauged brick, segmental arches with heavy carved keystones; stone sills; 2nd-floor windows smaller. On ground floor: four boxed 9/9 sashes with large moulded pseudo-keystones and deeper reveals; doorcase on left with decorative overlight and C20 door; deep moulded plinth with cellar grilles. Left return, part rendered and part painted, has segmental-headed sash windows with sills and wooden keystones. Rear has double-depth wing. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly partly occupied by bank and partly a draper's business. Old photograph shows present parapet is reduced by 2 courses. (BoE: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-: 243; ).

Listing NGR: SO9499645752