Former Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Bank. 4 related planning applications.
Former Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- upper-keep-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Former Midland Bank, 5, Church Street, Framlingham, IP13 9BQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 285 634
- Coordinates
- 52.22187, 1.3448
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Midland Bank is a bank building made up of two separate structures, dating from the 16th and 18th centuries. It has two storeys and attics. The earlier section features a red brick facade with a timber-framed core and a plaintiled roof, topped with a dentil cornice. It has one window on each storey: a small-paned sash window on the ground floor and mullion-and-transom leaded-paned casements on the upper floor, along with a dormer. The entrance includes a six-panelled door with raised fielded panels and an entablature. Inside, there is an exposed timber ceiling on the upper floor and remnants of a clasped purlin roof with windbraces. At the back, there is a long 17th-century two-storey timber-framed wing. The later part of the building is constructed in red brick, featuring a plaintiled roof and a coved cornice. This section has five windows, which are small-paned sashes in flush frames with flat arches. The central entrance has a six-panelled door with raised fielded panels, a rectangular fanlight, panelled linings, pilasters, and a triangular pediment.
Local climate
Former Midland Bank sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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