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1 Bank Street, Stirling

A Category B Listed Building in Stirling, Stirling

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1194 / 56°7'9"N

Longitude: -3.9401 / 3°56'24"W

OS Eastings: 279478

OS Northings: 693543

OS Grid: NS794935

Mapcode National: GBR 1C.LGSH

Mapcode Global: WH4P6.GG05

Plus Code: 9C8R4395+PX

Entry Name: 1 Bank Street, Stirling

Listing Name: 53 Baker Street and 1 Bank Street

Listing Date: 15 September 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 387185

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41090

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Stirling, 1 Bank Street

ID on this website: 200387185

Location: Stirling

County: Stirling

Town: Stirling

Electoral Ward: Stirling North

Traditional County: Stirlingshire

Tagged with: Shop Tenement

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Description

John Allan, 1890. 4-storey, 2-bay, old English style corner tenement, incorporating shop at ground, on site falling to N and E. Welsh urban brick work with polychromatic banding at 1st and 2nd floors, half- timbered gable, painted render at ground.

N (BAKER STREET) ELEVATION: 3 bays at ground. recessed entrance to centre flanked by 2 19th century shop windows. 2 segmental-arched windows to 1st floor, armorial plaque (see notes) at centre. 4-light canted oriel at 2nd floor to centre. Stone-mullioned bipartites to right and left at jettied and gabled 3rd floor.

W (BANK STREET) ELEVATION: paired entrance on higher ground to outer right, frieze and cornice above flanked by panelled colonnettes on consoles. Shop frieze continuous from N elevation at 1st floor. 2-storey, half-timbered shallowly projecting oriel to right above. Small window to centre, window to left at 1st and 2nd floor, small window to right of centre at 3rd floor. Half-timbering to 3rd floor and to gablehead jettied out above.

S ELEVATION: lower floors obscured by adjoining building, single window to right in chimney gable breaking eaves.

Windows predominantly timber casement with sash and case, graded grey slates, terracotta cresting to ridge, brick gable end stacks with raised banding.

Statement of Interest

'STERLINI OPIDUM', 'THE STIRLING ARMS' inscribed on plaque with small animal on top. The tenement makes a colourful and effective pivotal statement at this signigicant road furniture and demonstrates Stirling's later period of fluition.

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