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Royal Bank Of Scotland, 3-5 Hope Street, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9505 / 55°57'1"N

Longitude: -3.2077 / 3°12'27"W

OS Eastings: 324682

OS Northings: 673713

OS Grid: NT246737

Mapcode National: GBR 8KG.RD

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.PPRM

Plus Code: 9C7RXQ2R+6W

Entry Name: Royal Bank Of Scotland, 3-5 Hope Street, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 3 Hope Street

Listing Date: 28 March 1996

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389754

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43307

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389754

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Sydney H Miller, 1930. Symmetrical 6-storey 5-bay inter-war classical former bank. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Channelled banded rustication at ground; architraved door at centre with consoled cornice; Greek key frieze above. Panelled 1st floor with similar window at centre. 3 centre bays above with giant free-standing 3-storey Ionic order columns in antis; glazing divided by bronze panels; outer bays with pilastered and corniced windows at 2nd floor, architraved and corniced windows at 3rd floor, recessed windows at 4th floor; plain entablature and cornice. Solid parapet broken by attic balconies. Similarly detailed 3-bay return to Hope Street Lane, with dressed rubble bay beyond.

Bronze multi-pane casement windows. Piend and platform copper roof; corniced ashlar stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: converted to modern retail use but remains of telling hall survive, including 4 massive columns and compartmented ceiling.

Statement of Interest

Designed for the Royal Bank of Scotland, and based on a scheme by his colleague D W Crawford of 1922. Now incorporated into the nearly contemporary adjoining Frasers Department Store (see separate listing).

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