Royal Bank of Scotland

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SD4761NE 1685-1/7/199

LANCASTER NEW STREET (West side) No. 2, (Royal Bank of Scotland)

09/07/74

GV II

Includes: No.55 CHURCH STREET.

Bank and offices. Around 1829, built as the Amicable Society Library to designs by architect William Coulthart. Altered in 1956. Sandstone ashlar, with a slate roof, and a gable chimney stack to the right of the Church Street elevation.

Square plan on a corner site. Two storeys above cellars and seven bays in a symmetrical composition, which is "hinged" in the centre so that three bays are in New Street and three in Church Street, with the central bay, which is slightly convex and contains the doorway, forming a canted corner between them. The ground floor has banded rustication above a plinth, and the first floor is articulated by simple pilasters. The ground-floor windows have been lowered to the plinth and have late C20 joinery. On the first floor the windows have 15-pane sashes with plain reveals, except for the one above the entrance, which has a moulded architrave, a projecting sill, and a simple cornice. The doorway has plain reveals, and panelled double doors below a large overlight.

Incorporated in the right-hand end of the Church Street facade is a Victorian cast-iron letter box.

Listing NGR: SD4758961834