Description

PORTSMOUTH

SU6400SW COMMERCIAL ROAD, Landport
774-1/21/261 (East side)
25/09/72 Nos.116 AND 118
Midland Bank

II

Bank. c1900. Portland stone. Pitched lead roof, stone stack
with moulded cap to left and centre. Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 4 bays. At right corner is a
full height bowed inset, 2 leaf 4 moulded panelled door with
flanking Doric pilasters and entablature; on first floor is a
sash with 6-pane lower leaf, cornice with console brackets,
flanking Ionic pilasters and entablature, elaborate wreath
craving to frieze, panelled parapet and lead dome. On left are
4 articulated bays each with round-headed bank window set
within rusticated face under round arch with keystone, flanked
with paired and single Roman Ionic pilasters on projecting
pedestals, entablature with bracket cornice runs across and
return to right. On first floor are four 12-pane sashes, each
with architrave, cornice with console brackets; modillion
cornice, coped parapet between four 9-pane attic casements,
each framed by pilasters, cornice and shaped pediments. Right
return is similar 3 bays wide. On left is a 3-storey
projection with 2-leaf 6-panelled door set in band rusticated
ground floor with architrave and bracketed cornice, small
casement over. First and second floor, each has a narrow
8-pane sash, cornice and coped parapet. Right return has
similar extension on right.

Listing NGR: SU6418000396

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666689

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)