Description

George Washington Browne, 1905. Large 4-storey and attic Francois Ier bank on corner site. Polished cream ashlar sandstone. Mullioned and transomed windows. Base course and cill course at ground. Ground floor cornice/1st floor cill course articulated by pedestals, supporting pilasters framing upper floor windows grouped in tripartite arrangement; panelled pilasters at 1st floor, giant order Corinthian pilasters to 2nd and 3rd floors; enriched aprons and frieze. Lavish dentilled cornice with pierced parapet. Curved corner expressed by windows as above, with elaborate pilastered and segmental pedimented doorway at ground. 3 bays as above to each elevation.

GEORGE STREET ELEVATION: broad arched window to left at ground, secondary door to right with pair of later small bipartite windows between, perhaps replacing shopfront. Small corniced windows at each floor flank centrepiece; attic gable with segmental pedimented bipartite.

HANOVER STREET ELEVATION: bipartite window to right at ground; corniced windows at 2nd and 3rd floors with wallhead stack above. 3-bay windowpiece to left with double transomed windows at ground, and gable as above.

Timber casement windows. Piended and gabled roof; grey-green slates. Corniced and pilastered wallhead stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: Telling Room completely refitted by Henry Wylie and Partners, 1964.

Statement of Interest

One of several branches designed for the British Linen Bank by Washington Browne.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569450

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)