Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. A Nineteenth Century Bank. 2 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- keen-shingle-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1994
- Type
- Bank
- Period
- Nineteenth Century
- Address
- Midland Bank, 14-15 High Street, Rhosddu, LL13 8HP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 336 502
- Coordinates
- 53.04535, -2.99186
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Midland Bank is an 18th-century building designed in the Baroque palazzo style. It features an ashlar façade with polished granite columns on the lower storey and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and a five-window range. The lower storey is recessed and supported by coupled Tuscan columns that carry an entablature. The main entrance is located to the left, with three segmentally arched windows for the banking hall in the center, all featuring stressed voussoirs and scrolled keystones. The right-hand bay is advanced and includes a doorway framed by a stone architrave with an entablature, providing access to the upper chambers.
The upper storey is divided by rusticated pilasters and features segmental pediments over the outer bays, which are linked by a balustraded parapet. It has 12-pane sash windows set in stressed and pedimented architraves, along with an enriched frieze adorned with swags. The pediments are topped with short chimney stacks.
Inside, the top-lit banking hall is divided into three bays, with the main beams of the plaster-panelled ceiling supported by square-section piers. A stained glass panel is featured in the central glazed area.
Local climate
Midland Bank receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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