Description

BANK HOUSE: 1835. 2-storey, 3-bay, symmetrical, gabled bank house. Harled sandstone rubble with painted ashlar margins. Architraved windows with projecting cills.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: regular fenestration; 2-leaf, timber-panelled door to centre in block pedimented surround, letterbox fanlight. Wallhead consoled at gable ends.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: regular fenestration.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: regular fenestration with narrow, single storey gabled pavilion wing.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: window to 1st floor, right. Smaller 2-storey, advanced, gabled pavilion wing to left; single storey, advanced gabled bay forming Bank House to right return.

12-pane, sash and case windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Coped gable stacks.

INTERIOR: remodelled as banking floor to ground.

BANK: mid 19th century. Single storey, rectangular-plan, gabled addition abutting pavilion wing of bank house to rear. Harled with yellow sandstone margins, bull-faced base course, shouldered, coped skews. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-bay; segmentally-arched bipartite window to left, projecting cornice. Stone steps to segmentally-arched entrance to right, shield bearing Saltire device to entablature, consoled cornice. Blind oculi to gablehead. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay regular fenestration. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, 2 windows.

BOUNDARY WALL: low, coped, wall with plain, square-plan gatepiers to front; high, coped rubble wall enclosing garden to rear on site sloping down towards river.

Statement of Interest

A good example of late Georgian, Scottish burgh architecture, simple symmetry and well proportioned. A type of building common as inns, manses, merchants' houses and banks. The bank provides an interesting variation, not uncommon to small market towns, with the addition of a separate bank building to one side of the bank house, or bank manager's residence.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17837377

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)