Midland Bank

The Midland Bank is a four-storey building featuring ten bays facing Bute Street, seven bays facing James Street, and a narrow corner bay. It is constructed from Bathstone and yellow brick, with columns made of red and grey granite and some terracotta panels. The heavy cornice is adorned with paired brackets and swags. The third-floor windows have square-headed architraves, while the round-headed openings contain sashes; however, the five southern bays on Bute Street have square-headed openings. The window surrounds are made of yellow brick with narrow round-headed decoration between the openings, complemented by Bathstone surrounds and terracotta panels. Below the sill level, there is a decorative band of yellow brick, Bathstone, and terracotta.

On the second floor, there are paired round-headed sash windows in each bay, supported by columns with granite shafts and foliated capitals, although the five southern bays on Bute Street feature single arches. Each bay has arched single sash windows with floral decoration in the spandrels and granite columns. The ground floor is marked by articulated columns with pink granite shafts resting on grey granite bases, topped with floral capitals. The round-headed arches include relief decoration on the keystones and in the spandrels, and there are shouldered sash windows. The entrance doorways are located in the southern bay on Bute Street and in the eastern and western bays on James Street. The treatment of the corner bay mirrors that of the main bays.

Inside, the main entrance doorway leads to a polygonal wooden panelled lobby that opens into the banking hall, which features wooden panelled counters and partitions with frosted glass. The ceiling beams are decorated in a classicizing style, and the floor is laid with black and white Carrara marble tiles. The doorway to Bute Street leads to a lobby with a marble tiled floor, a red glazed brick dado, and a simple ceiling cornice, with a corridor that continues in the same style.