Description

Robert Paton, 1856; with later alterations. 3-storey, 6-bay symmetrical Renaissance palazzo bank. Polished ashlar, ground floor refaced in polished granite, (F Durward, 1963). Deep base course; mutuled shopfront cornice; 1st floor cill course; dentilled and mutuled cornice; panelled parapet with dies. Architraved window margins.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: Doric columned porticoes to outer left and right; triglyph frieze; mutuled cornice; panelled parapet; steps to 2-leaf timber doors; fanlights; 4 elongated windows to central bays. Regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors; panelled aprons, laurel pulvinated frieze and pediments to 1st floor windows.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Grey slate roof; wallhead stacks; polygonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

Marked as the Union Bank of Scotland on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1858. When erected in 1856, a lead tablet was found in the foundations of the previous building. It had been placed there by John Muir, Master of the English School and Session Clerk in Ayr, and Elizabeth Chalmers, daughter of John Chalmers of Gadgirth House (Love, p36). The tablet reads "Mr John Muir & Mrs Elizabeth Chalmers of old Gadgirth his spouse did found this house AD 1753."

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17836042

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)