Description

H O Tarbolton of Dick Peddie & Walker Todd, 1926. Severe Classical. Symmetrical 4-storey, 3-bay stripped classical former bank. Polished grey ashlar granite; channelled at 1st and 2nd floors. Ground floor framed by massive square piers; pair of polished black granite columns and capitals form tripartite entrance; modern smoked glass screen behind; dentilled cornice. Central 1st floor window with architrave, cornice and windowguard with flagpole; keystones to flanking windows. Bracketed cornice above 2nd floor with decorative cast-iron balcony; 3rd/attic floor with simple cornice and blocking course.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; piended roof; tall granite stacks with moulded copes.

INTERIOR: Banking Hall with glazed dome and cupola; capitalled columns and pilasters; decorative plasterwork ceiling; panelled walls; modern counters.

Statement of Interest

Designed for the British Linen Bank, now Bank of Scotland. A similarly severe inter-war classical was used by Kinross and Inch Morrison at

49 George Street in 1921. Bank closed 1995.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795691

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)