Midland Bank

A town house, now occupied by the Midland Bank, dates to the 17th century, with a facade dating to the mid-18th century. The building has walls of lias ashlar with rusticated stone quoins. It features a modillion stone cornice and parapet, with pilaster divisions, and a slate roof with stone gable copings. There are two stone stacks at the left-hand gable, one projecting, and one at the right-hand gable. The building is two storeys and attics, with three windows on the front. The ground floor has two balancing rounded bay-windows with glazing-bars. A moulded continuous cornice runs along the front. The first floor has three sash windows with glazing-bars, each set within a moulded stone architrave with a projecting key stone and stone cills. The 18th-century facade fronts an earlier core. The west elevation is also two storeys and attic, and the rear gable has stone coping and one brick stack. The upper floor has two 2-light stone mullions with ovolo detail, the labels of which have been replaced by later lintels. A stone fireplace, dating to around 1600, is built into the west gable wall at first floor level and is not associated with the present stacks. This fireplace has a depressed arch head and recessed spandrels. Inside, the front room has a mid-chamfered ceiling beam with a straight chamfer. Further chamfered ceiling beams are found at the rear. An upper back room has a stone fireplace with a Tudor-arch head. The rear attics contain 17th-century stone-mullion windows.