49, 51 Low Street, Clydesdale Bank, Banff
Description: 49, 51 Low Street, Clydesdale Bank
Category: B
Date Listed: 22 February 1972
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22048
OS Grid Coordinates: 368947, 863969
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6645, -2.5221
Location: B9142, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AN
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AN
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Listing Text
Style of William Robertson, Elgin, circa 1837. 2-storey and attic, symmetrical classical bank; tooled sandstone ashlar, polished ashlar dressings. Doorways under decoratively glazed fanlights, set back in simple shallow pedimented doorpieces with lugged and moulded surrounds. Similar pediments adorn paired centre aproned windows with raised margins. 4 lst floor windows under bracketted cornices belowed narrow pulivinated string course, frieze and wallhead cornice. Plain blocking course, raised at centre with flanking scroll consoles. 2 modern box
dormers; slate roof.
References:
Alexander Keith, THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND BANK LTD (1936), p 40.
Notes:
Former North of Scotland Bank. Originally the design was attributed to Archibald Simpson, but the quoted source in the ABERDEEN JOURNAL has proved mistaken. Stylistically the building suggests William Robertson as architect though Archibald Simpson also designed buildings for the North of Bank, established in Aberdeen in l836. The Banff branch was
opened 15 Jan, 1836 (not necessarily in this building) and was one of 'fifteen rural offices' opened during the first year of operation of the North of Scotland Bank.
Source: Historic Scotland
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