Latitude: 54.9588 / 54°57'31"N
Longitude: -4.4832 / 4°28'59"W
OS Eastings: 241100
OS Northings: 565510
OS Grid: NX411655
Mapcode National: GBR 4H.YL1W
Mapcode Global: WH3TF.3MDB
Plus Code: 9C6QXG58+GP
Entry Name: 40-42 Victoria Street (former Royal Bank of Scotland), Newton Stewart
Listing Name: 40-42 (even numbers) Victoria Street (former Royal Bank of Scotland), Newton Stewart
Listing Date: 17 December 1979
Last Amended: 17 June 2025
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384114
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38696
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Newton Stewart, 40-44 Victoria Street, Royal Bank Of Scotland
ID on this website: 200384114
Location: Newton Stewart
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Town: Newton Stewart
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Bank building
A three-storey former bank building in the Baronial style, dated 1873. The main elevation to Victoria Street is asymmetrical with the second bay from the left slightly advanced and rising to a crowstepped gable. The roofs are slated with crowstepped gables to the ends and rear and tall corniced end and axial stacks. The walling is ashlar red sandstone with cream sandstone dressings, quoins and band courses.
The end bays have entrances at ground-floor level in cream sandstone surrounds. The entrance to the south is surmounted by a gablet and has a double-leaf panelled door. The one to the north has a consoled balcony above and contains a panelled door with a fanlight.
The window openings are either single light or bipartite, with timber sash and case units and plain plate glass glazing. The second-floor windows have gablet dormers with shield motifs and finials and there is a stepped and moulded string course over the first floor.
Originally a branch of the National Bank of Scotland, the building was partially rebuilt after a fire on 26 April 1875. On its completion it was described in the local press as 'the noblest building in the burgh' and attributed to Mr Thomson of Edinburgh. Graham Maitland Thomson was the Clerk of Works to the National Bank of Scotland from 1870. The building has also been attributed to David MacGibbon who was then the architect to the Bank.
Statutory address and supplementary information revised in 2025. Previously listed as '40-44 (EVEN NOS) VICTORIA STREET, THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND'.
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