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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
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.
B Group.
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