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Bank Of Scotland, 97 Victoria Street, Stromness

A Category B Listed Building in Stromness, Orkney Islands

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Coordinates

Latitude: 58.9618 / 58°57'42"N

Longitude: -3.2996 / 3°17'58"W

OS Eastings: 325353

OS Northings: 1009018

OS Grid: HY253090

Mapcode National: GBR L561.K72

Mapcode Global: WH6B1.900M

Plus Code: 9CCRXP62+P5

Entry Name: Bank Of Scotland, 97 Victoria Street, Stromness

Listing Name: 97 Victoria Street, the Bank of Scotland

Listing Date: 8 December 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 388182

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41817

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Stromness, 97 Victoria Street, Bank Of Scotland

ID on this website: 200388182

Location: Stromness

County: Orkney Islands

Town: Stromness

Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles

Traditional County: Orkney

Tagged with: Bank building

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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.

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