Midland Bank

PETERBOROUGH 1. 1500 CATHEDRAL SQUARE (South Side) Nos I & 3 (Midland Bank ) TL 1998 NW 1/402 II 2. Includes No 2 Bridge Street. Dated 1902 on rainwater head. 2 storeys and attics in ashlar with slate mansard roof with 3 gabled dormers and balustraded parapet. Cupola to corner with plain half-columns tarter pediments, octagonal in form and with weathervane. Heavy modillion. eaves cornice to building. 3 blank cartouches above 3 windows glazing bars. Gibbon rustication with triple keystone. 3 windows on ground floor with round arches, keystones, modern glazing, bays marked by half columns, bank name on entablature. Full-height pilasters to ends. No 3 in part of the bank premises but is a sympathetic modern extension. No 2 Brige Street is part of the bank building arid is similar in elevation, with 2 windows on the lst floor and 1 on the ground. Doomway in quoin is dated 1836, but is probably later, round-arched, with female supports to cartouche beneath a 3-light wmndow with half-columns and pediment. The building is included for its very prominent position and as part of a visual group with other properties in Cathedral Square.

Listing NGR: TL1920398613