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

1 VICTORIA STREET, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERSLB46023

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
15/03/1999
Local Authority
Orkney Islands
Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Burgh
Kirkwall
NGR
HY 44833 10831
Coordinates
344833, 1010831

Description

Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson, 1938. 2-storey and attic over basement, 5-bay rectangular-plan symmetrical bank building built on raised platform with paired doorways to outer bays and box dormers. Squared and coursed rubble with polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Eaves cornice. Long and short margins to openings. Ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing basement; long and short quoins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window at each floor in 3 bays to centre. Steps to moulded architraved and corniced doorway at ground in bays to outer right and left; modern door in bay to outer left; cash point machine in bay to outer right; window at 1st floor. 2 evenly disposed dormers above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at ground and 1st floors, offset to left of centre; attic window to left of gable; gablehead stack above.

Timber framed windows at ground; 2-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; small-pane timber sash and case dormer windows; central small rooflight to E pitch. Grey slate roof; stone ridge; rubble corniced gablehead d stacks to N and S; predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative, polygonal hoppers.

INTERIOR: modern bank building at ground; unseen above, 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: low coped wall with cast-iron railings; square-plan gatepiers to steps with simple squared caps.

Statement of Special Interest

Built on raised ground and set back slightly from the street, this bank building stands at the north end of Victoria Street. It is boldly symmetrical and retains its eaves cornice and wide, corniced stacks.

References

Bibliography

1st edition Ordnance Survey map, (1881), evident; J Gifford, HIGHLAND AND ISLANDS, (Buildings of Scotland Series), (1992),

p 337.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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