Description

William Henderson, 1871. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay Italianate symmetrical rectangular-plan bank. Bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar with polished red sandstone dressings. Base course; eaves course and cornice; coped blocking course. Shouldered margins and aproned cills to ground floor windows; plain margins and consoled cills to 1st floor windows; long and short quoins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece with shallow block pediment at ground in bay to centre; 2-leaf timber panelled door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking (cash machine in window to outer right). 3 box dormers, evenly disposed, above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay gabled elevation. 2 windows, set close, at ground to centre; 2 window at 1st floor above. Blocked window at ground in bay to right. Multi-flue gablehead stack above.

4- and 3-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; asbestos felt to dormers; cream ashlar corniced gablehead stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers.

INTERIOR: modern bank fittings at ground; not seen at 1st floor.

Statement of Interest

Originally the Union Bank of Scotland, it became a Bank of Scotland branch in 1955.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17829012

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6