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Clydesdale Bank And North Of Scotland Bank, 71 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

A Category A Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9539 / 55°57'14"N

Longitude: -3.1971 / 3°11'49"W

OS Eastings: 325349

OS Northings: 674079

OS Grid: NT253740

Mapcode National: GBR 8MF.W5

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.VMR0

Plus Code: 9C7RXR33+H5

Entry Name: Clydesdale Bank And North Of Scotland Bank, 71 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 71 Hanover Street with Railings

Listing Date: 13 January 1966

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368070

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB28999

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200368070

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

David Bryce, 1847. 4-storey and basement, 3-bay Italianate office slightly set forward from building line. Polished cream ashlar sandstone. Pedimented fluted Ionic porch to left with 2-leaf panelled doors. Architraved windows with pediments and panelled aprons at 1st floor, cornices at 2nd, bay-leaf pulvinated friezes to both. Modillioned cornice with balustraded parapet.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Corniced ashlar stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: now united with adjoining building (see separate listing,

Nos 73-77). Not seen 1995.

RAILINGS: cast-iron railings (as adjoining bank- see separate listing).

Statement of Interest

An extension of the Edinburgh and Leith Bank built by Bryce at 29-31 George Street (see separate listing) in 1841, which had just become the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank.

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