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Latitude: 55.9506 / 55°57'2"N
Longitude: -3.207 / 3°12'25"W
OS Eastings: 324721
OS Northings: 673722
OS Grid: NT247737
Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.WC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.QP1K
Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2V+65
Entry Name: Bank Of Scotland, 141 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 141 Princes Street
Listing Date: 23 July 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371131
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30300
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 141 Princes Street, Bank Of Scotland
ID on this website: 200371131
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Bank building
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.
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.
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