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Latitude: 55.6151 / 55°36'54"N
Longitude: -4.6656 / 4°39'56"W
OS Eastings: 232219
OS Northings: 638949
OS Grid: NS322389
Mapcode National: GBR 38.M8FP
Mapcode Global: WH2P3.94J6
Plus Code: 9C7QJ88M+2Q
Entry Name: Registrar's Office, 20 Bank Street, Irvine
Listing Name: 20 Bank Street
Listing Date: 24 March 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391258
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44643
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391258
Location: Irvine
County: North Ayrshire
Town: Irvine
Electoral Ward: Irvine West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Office building
Dated 1905. Free Style office building in fusion of Baroque and Jacobean details, 2-storey, 3-bay. Red sandstone ashlar, squared and snecked to sides and rear. Deep base course, lugged, architraved window surrounds, dividing cornice and eaves cornice with parapet pierced with strapwork carving and articulated with corniced dies.
Centre bay at ground with 4 windows, each keystoned and with banded architraves linking; outer bays with round-arched doorways under segmentally pedimented ashlar canopies with panelled soffits on deep scrolled ashlar brackets, monogrammed shields (IPC to left, 1905 to right) and foliate carving above entrances. Panelled doors with multi- pane upper panels and small-pane fanlights. Bowed oriel corbelled on scrolled brackets to centre at 1st floor, flanked by stylisted composite capitalled pilasters repeated to frame bipartite windows of outer bays.
Timber sash and case windows, plate glass lower sashes and 9-pane uppers. Ashlar skews, grey-green slates and clay ridge tiles; corniced ashlar stacks with terracotta cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
The neighbouring 22 Bank Street is a simpler and rougher variant on the design of No 20. Marked on current map as the Registrar's Office.
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