Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Bank. 4 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- low-fireplace-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midland Bank, 49 and 51, Corn Street, BS1 1HT
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45466, -2.59397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Bank, located at Nos. 49 and 51 Corn Street in Bristol, is a bank building constructed in 1922 by Whinney, Son and Austin Hall. It is designed in the Late Edwardian Baroque style and features Portland ashlar with a grey granite plinth and a slate mansard roof. The building has a double-depth plan and consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window range.
Situated on a corner site, it includes a one-window corner bay and a seven-window left return. Architectural details include a moulded plinth and sill band, a banded ground floor leading to a moulded plat band, and banded in antis pilasters on the first floor. The right-hand section has a one-window banded section with Corinthian attached columns supporting an entablature and dentil cornice, which is set forward to the antae. The dormers are pedimented and separated by a balustrade.
The corner features a full-height drum that is set back and topped with a domed attic storey. The entrance has a distyle-in-antis design with Tuscan columns and an entablature with a dentil cornice, leading to 20th-century doors. Above the entrance, tripartite windows are adorned with guilloche moulding on the mullions, architraves, and dentil cornices, while the attic showcases sculptures of two boys holding a festoon beneath a clock face and a winged putto. The dome is decorated with consoles separated by heavy rope moulding, festoons, and a cornice, featuring lead cartouches, a ribbed dome, and a finial.
Ground-floor windows are semicircular-arched with coved surrounds and blue glass margin panes, and a small right-hand doorway has a large split key beneath an oculus. First-floor windows have architraves with raised aprons and dentil cornices, with 6/9-pane sashes on the first floor and 6/6-pane horned sashes on the second floor. The dormers contain 3/6-pane sashes. The interior has been largely remodelled in the late 20th century but retains an old-fashioned design that is fitting for its important corner location in the financial centre of the city.
Local climate
Midland Bank receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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