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2, 4, 6 Bank Street, Irvine

A Category C Listed Building in Irvine, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6148 / 55°36'53"N

Longitude: -4.6665 / 4°39'59"W

OS Eastings: 232163

OS Northings: 638919

OS Grid: NS321389

Mapcode National: GBR 38.M876

Mapcode Global: WH2P3.943F

Plus Code: 9C7QJ87M+WC

Entry Name: 2, 4, 6 Bank Street, Irvine

Listing Name: 2, 4 and 6 Bank Street and 108 High Street

Listing Date: 24 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391257

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44642

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391257

Location: Irvine

County: North Ayrshire

Town: Irvine

Electoral Ward: Irvine West

Traditional County: Ayrshire

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Description

Late 19th century. 3-storey corner tenement with tower, Tudor, castellated and Baronial details and shop at ground. Bull-faced squared and snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Cornice above ground floor and partially crenellated wallhead. Hoodmoulds. Crowstepped gableheads with blind cross gunloop motifs and ashlar gablehead stacks with billeted coping.

BANK STREET ELEVATION: modern shop at ground. 5 bays at 1st and 2nd floor (arranged 1-3-1) with chimneyhead gables over outer 2 bays each side. Later porch addition to outer left at ground, ashlar, with pilaster flanked door with obelisk finials.

TOWER: bowed corner tower through 1st and 2nd floors with 3-light windows and moulded courses, deeply corbelled cornice and profiled gutter, and candlesnuffer roof with fishscale bands and lead ball finial.

HIGH STREET ELEVATION: 3-bay, gabled bay over single windows at centre (detailed as those above), stone mullioned bipartites in flanking bays.

Timber windows with sash and case at 2nd floor with some small-pane upper sashes, casements at 1st floor with leaded upper panes over timber transoms. Decorative winged beast rainwater hoppers. Grey-green slate roof. Billetted coping to stacks. Red terracotta cans.

Statement of Interest

Material form and details continued in adjoining property in High Street, which although now merged internally is listed separately on ground of design differences.

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