Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1972. Bank.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-parapet-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1972
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midland Bank, 25 and 27, High Street, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 704
- Coordinates
- 51.43265, -2.18539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Bank, located at Nos 25 and 27 on Corsham High Street, is a house converted into a bank, dating from around 1820 to 1830. It is built of ashlar stone and features a low-pitched slate hipped roof with two ashlar stacks. The building is three stories high and has a three-window range, with a square plan and formal facades facing south and east.
Architectural details include a moulded cornice and parapet, with each floor framed by raised angle strips, a plinth, two floor bands, and a band beneath the cornice. The original design featured 16-pane outer windows and 12-pane center windows on both facades, but the ground floor now has plate glass sashes that replaced the original glazing bar sashes.
Both facades have an arched central doorway with a fanlight. The east front, facing High Street, has a six-panel door, while the south front, facing Post Office Lane, has a four-panel door and an ornate cast-iron porch with a tent roof. The porch includes pierced uprights, a pierced Gothic top rail, and a pierced scroll frieze with a vase centerpiece. Old photographs indicate that there were matching railings and a gateway leading to Post Office Lane.
Local climate
Midland Bank receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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