Midland Bank

BRISTOL

ST5873SE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/11/571 (North West side) Nos.49 AND 51 Midland Bank

GV II

Bank. 1922. By Whinney, Son and Austin Hall. Portland ashlar with a grey granite plinth and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Edwardian Baroque. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site has a 1-window corner bay and 7-window left return; moulded plinth and sill band, banded ground floor to a moulded plat band, the first floor has banded in antis pilasters and right-hand 1-window banded section, with Corinthian attached columns to an entablature and dentil cornice, set forward to the antae, with pedimented dormers separated by a balustrade. The corner has a full-height drum set back with a domed attic storey: a distyle-in-antis entrance with Tuscan columns to an entablature and dentil cornice, and C20 doors. Tripartite windows above have guilloche moulding to the mullions, with architraves and dentil cornices, beneath an attic with sculptures of 2 boys holding a thick festoon under a clock face and winged putto. The dome has consoles separated by a heavy rope moulding, festoon and cornice, with lead cartouches, ribbed dome and finial. Keyed semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have coved surrounds to windows with blue glass margin panes; a small right-hand doorway has large split key, beneath an oculus. First-floor windows have architraves with raised aprons and first-floor dentil cornices; 6/9-pane first-floor and 6/6-pane second floor horned sashes. Dormers have 3/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. An old-fashioned design but appropriate in making use of an important corner site in the financial centre of the city. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 18).

Listing NGR: ST5879072998