Midland Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Bank. 11 related planning applications.
Midland Bank
- WRENN ID
- rusted-frieze-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midland Bank, 55 Cardiff Street, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF44 7DL
- OS grid reference
- SO 003 025
- Coordinates
- 51.7124, -3.44333
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Midland Bank is a three-storey building featuring a five-bay facade made of snecked rubble, with bull-nosed quoins and freestone dressings, except for the quoins and ground floor architraves. It has a deep dentil cornice and a panelled frieze adorned with roundel ornament, along with sill bands, window architraves, keystones, and bracket sills. The building includes sash windows with marginal glazing bars; the second-floor windows are camber headed, while the first-floor windows are square headed with cambered architraves and cornices. There are bracketed stone balconies on the first floor, although the ironwork has been removed. The ground floor features semi-circular arched windows with pointed architraves, and the central entrance is round arched with a lugged architrave at the base and a freestone frame at the top, which includes a recessed roundel in the spandrels. The entrance door is a six-panel design. To the left of the door, a window has been altered to accommodate a night safe. A modern fascia has been attached to the first-floor sill. The building formerly had ironwork railings surrounding the forecourt walls.
Local climate
Midland Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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