Description

J M Arthur, 1901. 3-storey with gabled attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, asymmetrical, 17th century revival style former bank. Bracketed balcony to 1st floor. Red sandstone ashlar facade, square and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course, semi-continuous cill course to 2nd floor and continuous cornice. Stone mullioned, bipartite windows.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 grouped windows to centre of ground floor, slightly lower door to left, canopied door within recess to right, blocked margins. Heavily bracketed balcony to 1st floor centre and left bay. 2-storey advanced canted bay to left; full-height pilastered mullions to front, framing coat-of-arms between floors, terminating in coped parapet breaking eaves. Regular fenestration to right on 1st and 2nd floors. Small, stepped tripartite window to attic gable head, jettied above with central carved motif leading to flagpole at shouldered apex.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001.

W S(IDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: obscured by abutting building.

6-pane upper, plate glass lowers sashes. Grey slates, lead flashing. Coped skews and gable stacks. Cast-iron rain water goods.

INTERIOR: reproduction Edwardian bar fittings to ground floor. Modern refurbished offices to upper storieys.

Statement of Interest

Former bank building refurbished as a bar with offices above.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17825531

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback