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Airdrie Savings Bank, 1 Main Street, Coatbridge

A Category B Listed Building in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8625 / 55°51'45"N

Longitude: -4.0292 / 4°1'44"W

OS Eastings: 273101

OS Northings: 665121

OS Grid: NS731651

Mapcode National: GBR 009N.H9

Mapcode Global: WH4QB.2XM3

Plus Code: 9C7QVX7C+28

Entry Name: Airdrie Savings Bank, 1 Main Street, Coatbridge

Listing Name: Main Street, Airdrie Savings Bank

Listing Date: 19 April 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358763

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23018

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Coatbridge, 1 Main Street, Airdrie Savings Bank

ID on this website: 200358763

Location: Coatbridge

County: North Lanarkshire

Town: Coatbridge

Electoral Ward: Coatbridge North

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Bank building

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Description

James Davidson and Son, dated 1920. 3-storey, classical style bank building on corner site. Red ashlar sandstone, rusticated at ground floor, concealed slate roof. Polished granite base course, corniced fascia panel over ground floor, composite-capitalled pilastrade to 1st and 2nd floors, dentilled cornice with balustraded parapet and inscribed panels. Keystoned round-headed windows with moulded large-pane frames to ground floor, architraved and pedimented windows to 1st floor, 4-pane sash and case frames to 1st and 2nd floors; canted architraved window to angle at upper floors. Finialled elongated dome at angle, corniced stacks.

MAIN STREET ELEVATION: door with fanlight to angle at left with granite-columned doorpiece, 2 windows at centre, door with fanlight to right; 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floor, canted window to angle at left.

SUNNYSIDE ROAD ELEVATION: 2 windows to ground, 1st and 2nd floors. INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Interest

The building contractors were Louden and Inglis. The inscribed parapet panel at the Main Street elevation reads 'Airdrie Savings Bank Instituted 1835'; that at Sunnyside Road 'Coatbridge Office erected 1920'.

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