Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Bank. 4 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- errant-quartz-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1987
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midland Bank, 19 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 1DE
- OS grid reference
- SN 583 816
- Coordinates
- 52.41486, -4.08471
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Midland Bank is an Edwardian classical building, two stories high with a three-bay front. The façade features channelled stonework with a polished granite plinth and is recessed in the center. A bracket and dentil cornice adorns the taller ground floor, topped by a broken segmental pediment below a stepped parapet, which is supported by paired Ionic-derived columns in antis. The parapet displays the Prince of Wales’ feathers and dragon panels, referencing its history as the 'Wales bank'.
The building has a dressed stone chimney stack and small pane sash windows on the top floor, which are horned and framed by lugged architraves decorated with foliage. Below, there are giant lugged architraves with arched heads and keystones, with small pane lunettes in each bay. The doorcase, which is pedimented, is offset to the left and features double panelled doors. Console bracket keystones are positioned over the central and right-hand four-light windows, which have swept-up transoms. The right side has been truncated due to the insertion of a cash dispenser.
The interior has been significantly altered, with an additional storey added to the former banking hall.
Local climate
Midland Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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