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British Linen Bank, Market Square, Melrose

A Category B Listed Building in Melrose, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.5976 / 55°35'51"N

Longitude: -2.7194 / 2°43'9"W

OS Eastings: 354767

OS Northings: 634010

OS Grid: NT547340

Mapcode National: GBR 93GQ.27

Mapcode Global: WH7WQ.6KBN

Plus Code: 9C7VH7XJ+27

Entry Name: British Linen Bank, Market Square, Melrose

Listing Name: Market Square, (North Side), Bank of Scotland, J L Crosbie, Newsagent and Tsb

Listing Date: 19 February 1981

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 382958

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37801

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Melrose, Market Square, British Linen Bank

ID on this website: 200382958

Location: Melrose

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Melrose

Electoral Ward: Leaderdale and Melrose

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

Tagged with: Bank building

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Description

George Washington Browne, 1897. Free Renaissance. Red sandstone, tall 2 storey and attic, 3-bay block containing Bank of Scotland with lower, two-storey block to west containing shops at ground floor with offices over, canted to follow the line of the road. Bank of Scotland: bays

divided by panelled pilasters at each floor, entrance in right-hand bay with pair of round-headed lights over. Large segmental-headed window to telling-hall at left. 1st floor: pair of 2-light mullioned and transomed windows close-spaced over telling hall window. Similar window to right. Central 3-light mullioned window to attic, with sculptured cartouche over in tall, shaped gable surmounted by obelisk with flanking obelisks to sides. Tall, rendered and corniced chimney gables to flanks, slated roof. Lower east wing has door to offices in right hand bay with shops in centre and left-hand bays, that at centre bay retains its original shop-front 1st floor; transomed 2-light windows framed by pilasters, similar 3-light window at centre, cornice under eaves, straight skews with rectanglar corniced stack to west, slated roof.

Statement of Interest

B Group.

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