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Latitude: 54.904 / 54°54'14"N
Longitude: -5.028 / 5°1'40"W
OS Eastings: 205965
OS Northings: 560780
OS Grid: NX059607
Mapcode National: GBR FHYR.CP8
Mapcode Global: WH1R2.QZXY
Plus Code: 9C6PWX3C+HR
Entry Name: Bank Of Scotland, 12 Church Street, Stranraer
Listing Name: 12 Church Street, Formerly Bank of Scotland
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388098
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41746
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Stranraer, 12 Church Street, Bank Of Scotland
ID on this website: 200388098
Location: Stranraer
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Stranraer
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Bank building
1837. 3-storey with attic, 4-bay classical L-plan townhouse with circular stair tower to rear. Harled to sides and ground; painted ashlar to upper storeys. Base course; band course dividing ground and 1st floors; cornice and blocking course; painted margins at ground; remains of quoins at upper stories.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: fluted columns and corniced entablature to entrance doorway in penultimate bay to left; 2-leaf timber door; fanlight. Single windows aligned above. Regular fenestration to all other bays. Canted dormers to outer left and right at attic.
W (REAR) ELEVATION: central circular stairtower with pepperpot roof; rectangular 2-bay extension to N.
Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case glazing. Grey slate piended roof; coped gablehead stacks with corniced cans; stone skews.
INTERIOR: not seen 1997.
The building is described by W McIlwraith in 1875 as a "...plain, substantial building" and is notable for its impressive doorpiece, and stair tower to rear.
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