Former Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1999. A Edwardian Bank. 8 related planning applications.
Former Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- ruined-glass-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brighton and Hove
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1999
- Type
- Bank
- Period
- Edwardian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 June 2023 to amend the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ3004SW 577-1/38/966
BRIGHTON WESTERN ROAD (South side) No 79-80
(Formerly listed as No.80 Midland Bank)
II
Bank. 1905. Possibly by Thomas Bostock Whinney. Bath stone, roof obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: one storey, three-window range and double-fronted. The rusticated front is flanked by rusticated engaged Doric antae with fluted necking; the central entrance is flanked by engaged Doric columns, also fluted. Flat-arched entrance with architrave, fluted frieze and broken segmental pediment on consoles, the tympanum filled with garlands and fronds depending from the ornamental frame of the oval window above. Flat-arched windows to either side with architrave, pulvinated bay-leaf frieze and cornice, the original glazing now missing; frieze of intertwined sprays; entablature; parapet with balustrade between piers.
INTERIOR: no original fittings remain apart from the coffered ceiling decorated with bands of oak leaf ornament.
(Gray AS: Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary: London: 1985-: 382).
Listing NGR: TQ3038504387
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