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Latitude: 50.8092 / 50°48'32"N
Longitude: -2.7388 / 2°44'19"W
OS Eastings: 348038
OS Northings: 101327
OS Grid: ST480013
Mapcode National: GBR MJ.Y9YC
Mapcode Global: FRA 564Y.QSP
Plus Code: 9C2VR756+MF
Entry Name: Midland Bank
Listing Date: 12 June 1953
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290452
English Heritage Legacy ID: 395145
ID on this website: 101290452
Location: Beaminster, Dorset, DT8
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Beaminster
Built-Up Area: Beaminster
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Beaminster St Mary of the Annunciation
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Bank building
BEAMINSTER THE SQUARE
ST 4701/4801
(NORTH SIDE)
12.6.53
7/160 No 9 (Midland Bank)
GV II*
Town House, now premises of the Midland Bank. C17, with mid C18 facing.
Lias ashlar walls with rusticated stone quoins. Modillion stone cornice
and parapet over with pilaster divisions. Slate roof with stone gable-
copings. Stone stacks, 2 at left hand gable, with a projecting stack;
one at right hand gable. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, ground floor
with 2 balancing rounded bay-windows and glazing-bars. Moulded continuous
cornice along the front. Frist floor: 3 sashes and glazing-bars with
moulded stone architraves and projecting keys. Stone cills. C18 facade
fronting earlier one. West elevation: 2 storeys and attic. Rear gable
has stone-coping and one brick stack. Upper floor has 2 2-light stone
mullions (ovolos). No labels; replaced by later lintels. Stone fire-
place, c.1600, built into the west gable wall at first floor level and not
relating to the present stacks. Depressed arch head and recessed
spandrels. Interior: mid-chamfered ceiling-beam with straight chamfer
in front room, C17. Further chamfered ceiling-beams to rear. Stone
fireplace in upper back room with Tudor-arch head. C17 attics at rear
with stone-mullion window.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 25(35).
Listing NGR: ST4803701328
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