Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

60-64 HIGH STREET, CLYDESDALE BANKLB26005

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/03/1981
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
Dunfermline
NGR
NT 09094 87482
Coordinates
309094, 687482

Description

Thought to have been built 1898 for North of Scotland Bank; reconstructed 1981-82 by Kenneth Oliver. 3-storey; 5-bay; rectangular-plan commercial building. Free Baroque with upper bays divided by engaged columns of moulded concave section; segmental-headed pediments to parapet and turret-like corner bay with conical roof. Polished ashlar street elevations. Base course; mutuled projecting cornice above ground floor; band courses joining window cills to upper floors; upper band course forming frieze below deep projecting eaves cornice; balustraded parapet to roof. Architraved segmental-headed windows with keystones to ground floor; fielded panels above 1st floor windows; bracketed projecting cills and rounded upper edges to 2nd floor windows.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: altered entrance with deep splayed reveals and stepped lintel to outer left; steps up to late 20th century 2-leaf steel door. Segmental-headed former entrance (now blocked) with keystone to angled corner bay to outer right. Window to each bay in between. Outer left bay canted to upper floors; each with 3-light window; rounded head above eaves cornice with concave surround set into segmental-headed pediment with keystone and mutuled cornice. Pedimented window to 1st floor of turret-like bay to outer right; window above; conical roof with ball-ended finial above eaves cornice. Large banded windows to upper floors of 3 central bays. Segmental-headed pediment with keystone above 2 bays to right; carved panel at centre; mutuled cornice.

E (CROSS WYND) ELEVATION: 4 bays; segmental-headed former entrance (now blocked) with keystone to angled corner bay to outer left; pedimented window to 1st floor of turret-like section above; window to 2nd floor; conical roof above eaves cornice. Regular banded fenestration to right bays. Segmental-headed pediment with keystone above 2 bays to left; carved panel at centre; mutuled cornice.

Timber frame casements and 2-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof.

INTERIOR: not inspected (1998).

Statement of Special Interest

Free Baroque bank on prominent corner site.

References

Bibliography

John Gifford, FIFE, in the 'Buildings of Scotland' series (1988) p194.

About Listed Buildings

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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

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