Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10233
Building Number
19
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Midland Bank
Address
19 Great Darkgate Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Locality
Easting
258312
Northing
281695
Street Side
Location
Set into the slope of a continuous row of frontages in the lower part of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
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.
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