Midland Bank / HSBC - Market Place - Harleston, Norfolk
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N 52° 24.112 E 001° 17.949
31U E 384288 N 5807096
Former Midland Bank, later HSBC, on the Market Place, Harleston.
Waymark Code: WMYGRQ
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/14/2018
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Former Midland Bank, later HSBC, on the Market Place, Harleston. Closed in 2012 it now houses Ray Munn Paints & Interiors (
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This Diss Mercury article shows the building as Midland Bank in 1971 and 1989 (
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"2. Includes Nos 1 and lA Church Street. 1873. Grey brick with stuccoed dressings large building of three storeys. Six windows facing Market Place, three windows and tower facing The Thoroughfare, with splayed corner. Chamfered quoins. Moulded architraves to windows, first floor with cornices and pulvinated friezes. Sashes without glazing bars. Parapet and heavy moulded cornice. Ground floor horizontal rustication with dentilled cornice, No 7 has large windows with fluted pilasters, No 9 has modern ground floor windows. On the north-west corner facing The Thoroughfare is tall thin tower, Italinate style, rusticated quoins heavy moulded cornice with modillion brackets over clock stage, with ornate iron balcony railings, surmounted by tall octagonal cupola with lead-clad dome and weather vane. Round-headed doorway at base of tower with iron grille in arch."
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