Midland Bank

Stylised Classical banking front that turns the corner between Middleton Street and Spa Road. 3-storeys and attic red brick elevations with liberal use of freestone dressings including ashlar facing to the entire ground floor which has a rusticated plinth; the Middleton Street elevation has a restrained diaper pattern to the brickwork. Slate roof with dentilled red brick chimney stacks and finials to semicircular-headed dormers. Horned sash windows without glazing bars. The corner bay is pedimented with the bases of the pediment skewed outwards to align with the main elevations; this has a square-headed attic window with architrave over a 2-storey splayed oriel with bracketed cornice. The ground-floor here has a bracketed lintel over the main entrance with distinctive shell hood carried on paired pilasters, the outer ones of which are channelled; panelled double doors. Both the 3-bay elevation to Middleton Street and the 2-bay elevation to Spa Road are punctuated by giant-order Ionic pilasters and have bracketed and dentilled cornices with plain friezes and modern banking signs. Both have splayed oriels with shaped brackets to the 1st floor and 2-storey oriels with dentil cornices to the outer bays; the other 2nd floor windows have architraves and keystones. The ground-floor windows are segmental headed with lugged architraves and panelled and scrolled keystones; the windows are paired to Spa Road and continuous to the Middleton Street elevation which includes a further doorway.

The corner entrance opens onto the banking hall which has dado-panelling and retains good panelled counter with scrolled brackets. To right is the panelled Manager's Office. Retains some frosted glass.