Midland Bank

BIDEFORD

SS4526 THE QUAY 842-1/5/226 (West side) 19/03/73 No.11 Midland Bank

GV II

Large house, now bank. Mid C19. Solid rendered walls; part of rear wall is of exposed stone rubble with red-brick dressings. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimneys with moulded cornices just below the top. 3 storeys. Asymmetrical 7-window front, possibly disguising at least one earlier building. To the left a square 3-window projection, to the right a slightly less prominent 3-window canted bay; 1-window recessed centre containing main entrance. 3-window return front to right, facing Cooper Street. Uniform detail across both fronts. Horizontally-channelled ground storey. Second-storey windows with moulded architraves and (except for the 2 outer windows on the return front) cornices on consoles; bracketed sills, imposed on a continuous raised band. Third-storey window plain with a raised sill-band. 6-paned sashes throughout, except that in the third storey the upper sashes have only 3 panes. Bracketed eaves cornice. Rear elevation to King Street has barred sashes matching those at the front. INTERIOR inspected only in banking hall at front of ground storey: wholly altered. The building occupies a prominent position on the Quay frontage.

Listing NGR: SS4545326673