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Latitude: 55.0698 / 55°4'11"N
Longitude: -3.6142 / 3°36'51"W
OS Eastings: 297021
OS Northings: 576231
OS Grid: NX970762
Mapcode National: GBR 396T.BD
Mapcode Global: WH5WJ.GT5R
Plus Code: 9C7R399P+W8
Entry Name: Bank, 52, 54 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
Listing Name: 52, 54 Buccleuch Street
Listing Date: 29 January 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 362602
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26111
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dumfries, 52, 54 Buccleuch Street, Bank
ID on this website: 200362602
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Dumfries
Electoral Ward: Nith
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Bank building
Probably James Thomson of Glasgow, 1892. Large Italianate
bank. 3 storeys over basement. Symmetrical 5-bay main
elevation to Buccleuch Street with advanced and taller
central bay with granite-columned and balustraded porch,
windows above (canted at 1st, recessed at 2nd floor)
with flanking columns; attic stage above main cornice. 4
bays, the left advanced and with canted window, to Irish
Street. Built of red ashlar, rusticated at ground and
with vermiculated dressings and console keystones to
round-arched windows; architraved windows above, with
consoled cornices at 1st floor. Strings, band and cill
courses between floors, frieze with rosettes; cornice;
roof concealed by balustraded parapet. Set behind good
cast-iron balustrade with red ashlar piers.
Interior: suspended ceiling in modernised banking hall
encasing upper part of columns.
On corner with Irish Street. Occupies part of site of
Bridewell. NMRS index to Dick Peddie and MacKay drawings
notes drawings of details by J M Dick Peddie, 1913.
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