Description

T P Marwick, circa 1900, built as National Bank of Scotland
with accommodation.
2-storey, 3-bay asymmetrical bank. Squared and snecked cream
sandstone with red ashlar dressings; stone mullions and
transoms. Rubble sides and rear. Occasional relieving
arch, shaped gables.
S ELEVATION: door to centre; columned porch with mannered
parapet. 4-light window to left. Advanced 2-storey bay to
right with projecting rectangular tripartite window at
ground; mannered blocking course. Windows to each bay at
1st floor; bipartite at centre, tripartite to left,
bipartite with stone mullion and transom to right bay.
W ELEVATION: bipartite at centre ground floor, window
with stone transom to left. Advanced 2-storey bay to right;
canted bay windows at ground and 1st floor, mannered
blocking course. 1st floor window to outer left breaking
eaves in curvilinear gabled dormerhead with finial.
E ELEVATION: advanced 2-storey central bay with
mannered parapet and transomed stair window; small
window at ground. Flanking bay to right has window to
each floor; 1st floor window breaking eaves in
dormerhead as above. Single storey service wing
projecting to N at rear. Sash and case windows; 6-pane
glazing to upper case, 2-panes to lower case.
Shaped gables to advanced bays with mannered ashlar
coped skews and scroll skewputts.
Grey slates to M-roof with terracotta ridge tiles.
Corniced stone stacks. Decorative gutter fixtures.
Low ashlar coped sandstone retaining wall, piers and
gatepiers. Railings removed. Pedestrian gateway to rear
with corniced overthrow.

Statement of Interest

Thomas P Marwick FRIBA (1854-1927), pupil of Peddie and

Kinnear, Architect to National Bank of Scotland Ltd. Branches

include Trongate, Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Portobello.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804484

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)