Midland Bank

The Midland Bank is a bank building constructed between 1865 and 1867 for the Cumberland Union Banking Company, designed by Daniel Birkett of Carlisle and Liverpool. It is made of calciferous sandstone ashlar set on a rusticated plinth, featuring pilastered quoins, pilasters, string courses, and a bracketed cornice beneath an open balustraded parapet. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and is partly hipped, with remnants of ashlar ridge chimney stacks.

The building has three storeys and four bays on each facade, with one side facing Botchergate and an angled bay at the corner. The entrance features a 20th-century angled panelled door and a glazed fanlight, located within a tetrastyle porch that has a modillioned cornice and a balustraded balcony above. To the right, there is another 20th-century panelled door set in a stone architrave beneath a round-headed quoined arch, with "C.U.B.C." inscribed above it. The large round-headed ground-floor casements are separated by pilasters and topped with carved-head keystones. The upper-floor windows are sashes with segmental and round arches, divided by paired columns. Above the entrance, there is a tripartite window with a columned shaped pediment, and a shaped pedimental dormer is located in the corner attic.

The interior details are obscured by modern fascias. According to the Carlisle Journal from 1865, proposals for the new bank were made, but due to a bricklayers' strike, it did not open until 1867. Plans for the building, dated 1865, can be found in the Cumbria County Record Office.