Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

46 BANK STREET, BANK OF SCOTLANDLB35880

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000020 - See Notes
Date Added
03/07/1980
Local Authority
East Ayrshire
Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Burgh
Kilmarnock
NGR
NS 42718 37878
Coordinates
242718, 637878

Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey on raised basement, 6-bay (grouped 3-3) bank building flanked single storey, single bay wings. Rendered and painted with contrasting dressings, rubble to side. Basement course, architraved cill course to ground floor, plain cill course to 1st floor. Windows with lugged architraves and entablatures.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance door to 3rd bay left accessed by flight of steps with stepped walls flanking, leading to paired Roman Doric columned porch with decorative metopes and dentilled cornice, 2 bays to left of porch, 3 bays to right (with BANK OF SCOTLAND signage above), all over cill course. 6 regularly placed bays to 1st floor. Dentilled principal cornice with decorative parapet divided by pedimented dies. Lower flanking wings with outer pilasters and single arched bay: left wing bay (containing door) accessed by flight of steps with stepped walls flanking; right wing bay (blind with ATM inset) accessed by later stairs with wrought-iron hand rail, further window to upper set back bay.

NE ELEVATION: irregularly massed with pair of vertically placed narrow windows to centre, further narrow window to right; adjoining blind gable of main building to rear.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 2001.

SW ELEVATION: concealed by gable of adjacent building.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to ground floor with etched lower panes, 4-pane timber sash windows to 1st floor and single pane slit windows to NE elevation. Grey slate pitched roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks with circular and square cans.

INTERIOR: refurbished as Bank of Scotland branch.

Statement of Special Interest

Part of a B-Group with 1 Bank Place, Kilmarnock Standard. Sited in a prominent position on Bank Street. Founded in 1696, the original Bank of Scotland was forbidden to lend money to the state. It relied on the strength of Scotland's industry, commerce and agriculture for its survival in the world of business. Kilmarnock was one of the first towns to open a branch and it was sited on what is now Low Church Lane. This building was originally a pair of semi-detached villas, with the entrance doors centring the elevation. The right hand entrance was blocked and the remaining door given a more elaborate porch.

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey, 1st EDITION MAP (1856 7) showing branch of the Union Bank of Scotland; PLAN OF THE TOWN OF KILMARNOCK (1880) adapted from Government Survey; Dean of Guilds Plan, Case 1904-1905, plan 1107 "Union Bank, Bank Place, alteration to pair of villas, 1904" by unknown Paisley architect. John Malkin, PICTORIAL HISTORY OF KILMARNOCK (1989) p73; Frank Beattie, STREETS AND NEUKS - OLD KILMARNOCK (2000) p8 - Bank Street.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

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.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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