Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1990. Bank. 9 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- muted-keystone-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1990
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midland Bank, 23 Wellington Road, Rhyl, LL18 1BB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 007 813
- Coordinates
- 53.31972, -3.49092
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Midland Bank is a building in the free-classical style, constructed with red brick and featuring freestone dressings and channelled ashlar on the ground floor. It has a green slate roof that rounds across the corner, complemented by brick chimney stacks. The building stands three storeys tall with a two-bay elevation facing Wellington Road and a five-bay elevation on Bodfor Street. Both main elevations showcase round arched openings with cavetto moulding, dropped keystones, and timber glazing typical of banking halls on the ground floor.
On the far left of the Bodfor Street elevation, there is a secondary entrance featuring an architrave, panelled doors, and a keystone that connects to a cornice at the base of an oculus overlight. Above this entrance are 20 and 16-pane sash windows set in shouldered architraves, adorned with scrolls and festoons on the first floor, and tall keystones on the second floor. The main entrance is located at the corner beneath a scallop shell hood supported by brackets, featuring a granite doorcase with Ionic columns and a keystone.
The first and second floors of the corner are recessed, showcasing Ionic giant order columns and square piers as responds. The first-floor window is detailed similarly to the others, while the second floor features a tripartite window, both with curved glazing. Quoins, sill, and lintel bands delineate the division between the first and second floors, while the ground floor includes an impost band and a high plinth. The building is topped with a balustraded parapet and a dentilled cornice. The banking hall has been modernised.
Local climate
Midland Bank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
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