HSBC Bank is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1994. Bank. 9 related planning applications.
HSBC Bank
- WRENN ID
- sacred-zinc-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1994
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- HSBC Bank, 30, High Street, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1JE
- OS grid reference
- ST 319 614
- Coordinates
- 51.34777, -2.97848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HSBC Bank, formerly listed as Midland Bank, is a bank building from the early 20th century located on High Street in Weston-super-Mare. The building features facades made of limestone ashlar and has a hipped slate roof, designed in the Edwardian Free Style. It stands three storeys tall and is divided into six bays by bold projecting pilasters. The entrance bay is canted at the corner, flanked by two bays on the left facing High Street and three bays on the right facing Meadow Street.
The pilasters, which have Ionic capitals at the upper floor level, interrupt a bold moulded cornice that runs over all the windows and the parapet. The ground floor has a four-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels, flanked by one-light windows with moulded stone architraves. The flanking bays feature three-light stone-mullioned windows with similar architraves. The first floor is illuminated by a continuous run of paired small-framed lights set in pointed-arched surrounds, also with carved spandrels and a quatrefoil frieze. The second floor has small-paned lights arranged in a continuous run of stone cross-transomed and mullioned windows.
The interior of the ground floor has been remodelled, while the other floors have not been seen. The building is a fine example of the Free Style manner, characterized by strong articulation and distinguished by intricate carved details and features that reflect an interpretation of the Late Gothic style.
Local climate
HSBC Bank receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 9 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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