Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Midland Bank
Old Colwyn, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 9 September 1994
- Community
- Old Colwyn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28932, -3.69847
- Cadw reference
- 14846
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner of Cefn Road.
History
Built in 1912 as the London City and Midland Bank Ltd by Woolfall and Eccles, architects, of Liverpool.
Exterior
Ashlar, with rusticated plinth and outer pilasters. Hipped slate roof. Single storeyed, with angled corner and 3-window range to Cefn Road, 2 window range to Abergele Road, and entrance across angle. Channelled ashlar to this angle, which is surmounted by a high pediment. Round-arched entrance with continuous outer band of stylised foliate moulding, and scrolled keystone. Moulded brackets and festoons to frieze above. Windows in the return elevations to either side are also round-arched, and are recessed in moulded architraves with plain keystones, between Tuscan pilasters. Moulded band below plan frieze, modillion cornice and balustraded parapet.
Reason for designation
A good example of a small, early C20 bank building, which is part of a significant group of commercial buildings at the centre of Old Colwyn.
Nearby in the register
- Nos 399 & 401 Abergele RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Nos 403 & 405 Abergele RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Nos 407 & 409 Abergele RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- 411 Abergele RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.