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Latitude: 58.9618 / 58°57'42"N
Longitude: -3.2996 / 3°17'58"W
OS Eastings: 325353
OS Northings: 1009018
OS Grid: HY253090
Mapcode National: GBR L561.K72
Mapcode Global: WH6B1.900M
Plus Code: 9CCRXP62+P5
Entry Name: Bank Of Scotland, 97 Victoria Street, Stromness
Listing Name: 97 Victoria Street, the Bank of Scotland
Listing Date: 8 December 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 388182
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB41817
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200388182
Location: Stromness
County: Orkney Islands
Town: Stromness
Electoral Ward: Stromness and South Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
Tagged with: Bank building
William Henderson, 1871. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay Italianate symmetrical rectangular-plan bank. Bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar with polished red sandstone dressings. Base course; eaves course and cornice; coped blocking course. Shouldered margins and aproned cills to ground floor windows; plain margins and consoled cills to 1st floor windows; long and short quoins.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: pilastered and corniced doorpiece with shallow block pediment at ground in bay to centre; 2-leaf timber panelled door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight; window at 1st floor above. Window at each floor in bays flanking (cash machine in window to outer right). 3 box dormers, evenly disposed, above.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay gabled elevation. 2 windows, set close, at ground to centre; 2 window at 1st floor above. Blocked window at ground in bay to right. Multi-flue gablehead stack above.
4- and 3-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; asbestos felt to dormers; cream ashlar corniced gablehead stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets and hoppers.
INTERIOR: modern bank fittings at ground; not seen at 1st floor.
Originally the Union Bank of Scotland, it became a Bank of Scotland branch in 1955.
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