Listed Building: MIDLAND BANK (395145)

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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