Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. Bank. 8 related planning applications.

Midland Bank

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 July 1994
Type
Bank
Address
Midland Bank, 7 Conway Road, Colwyn Bay, LL29 7AD
OS grid reference
SH 849 789
Coordinates
53.29517, -3.72804
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Midland Bank is a building constructed in white ashlar with a hipped slate roof and axial stacks, dating from the early 20th century. It stands two storeys tall and features a four-window range facing Conway Road, with a three-window return on Woodland Road West. The Conway Road elevation showcases five windows for the banking hall, which is enhanced by corbelled pilasters and a triglyph frieze. The Woodland Road West return has two windows, with the left window set in an advanced rectangular bay. The upper windows are adorned with brackets supporting entablature hoods, and on the Conway Road side, they are paired beside a raised panel displaying the bank's original name.

The entrance is located to the right of the return elevation, within a projecting porch topped by a steep pediment. It features a moulded round-arched doorway with a heavy scrolled bracket supporting the arch, and fluid low reliefs in the spandrels. Above, there is a balustraded parapet over a heavy projecting eaves cornice. Adjacent to the main building on Woodland Road West, there are two further blocks that are slightly recessed from the main building line. These blocks contain two-pane sash windows with moulded architraves on the first floor and wide windows on the ground floor, with a pediment and triglyph frieze above the left ground floor window. A cornice and blocking course complete the design.

Inside, the banking hall features an ornate ceiling that is deeply coved and divided by heavy ribs, embellished with low relief foliate swags. The wall panels include shields of arms and other relief decorations.

Local climate

Midland Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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