Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Midland Bank
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41485, -4.08470
- Cadw reference
- 10233
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the slope of a continuous row of frontages in the lower part of the street.
History
Built 1908 to 1910 by Woolfall and Eccles of Liverpool.
Exterior
Edwardian classical 2-storey 3-bay channelled front with polished granite plinth, recessed to centre. Bracket and dentil cornice to the taller ground floor and broken segmental pediment to centre below stepped up parapet and carried on paired Ionic derived columns in antis. Prince of Wales’ feathers and dragon panels to parapet refer to its origins as the ‘Wales bank’; dressed stone chimney stack. Horned small pane sash windows to top floor with lugged and foilage ornamented architraves. Giant lugged and arched headed architraves with keystones below; small pane lunettes to each bay. Pedimented doorcase offset to left with double panelled doors; console bracket keystones over central and right hand 4-light windows with swept up transoms, truncated to right by insertion of cash dispenser.
Interior
Interior considerably altered with insertion of an additional storey into the former banking hall.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.