Description

Dated 1935 and designed by John Keppie and Henderson, Glasgow in modern Scots style, this former British Linen Bank is a reconstruction of an earlier premises. It was latterly a Bank of Scotland branch (now closed, 2026). Three-storey, asymmetrical five-bay polished sandstone ashlar facade. Extreme south (left) bay at back in line with adjoining former Bridge Street Church (LB42301) with a secondary entrance at ground floor under a two-light, segmental-headed fanlight. Off-centre principal entrance with carved stone crest by Scott Sutherland above. Canted oriel above rising through two storeys with mullioned and transomed first floor window, stepped chimneystack in re-entrant angle to left. Near symmetrical three bays right of main entrance comprising three large ground floor windows (lighting former banking hall) with reeded pilaster jambs, moulded architrave under continuous fascia band, three transomed first floor windows and three second floor windows with carved flattened ogee heads with decorative bas-relief finials linked by string course. Two and four-pane glazing. Irregularly stepped coped parapet masks roof, crowstepped harled gable and gable chimneystack to Miller Lane.

Statement of Interest

Former British Linen Bank.

Description and bibliography updated in 2026.

External Links

• Wikidata Q17825238

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)