Royal Bank of Scotland is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1974. Bank, office.
Royal Bank of Scotland
- WRENN ID
- tired-barrel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1974
- Type
- Bank, office
- Address
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 55, Church Street, LA1 1EG
- OS grid reference
- SD 475 618
- Coordinates
- 54.0498, -2.80199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at No. 2 New Street, was originally built around 1829 as the Amicable Society Library, designed by architect William Coulthart. The building has been altered in 1956 and features sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and a gable chimney stack on the right side of the Church Street elevation.
This bank and office building has a square plan situated on a corner site, consisting of two storeys above cellars and seven bays arranged symmetrically. The design is "hinged" in the centre, with three bays facing New Street and three facing Church Street, while the central bay, which is slightly convex, contains the entrance and forms a canted corner. The ground floor showcases banded rustication above a plinth, and the first floor is defined by simple pilasters. The ground-floor windows have been lowered to the plinth and feature late 20th-century joinery. The first-floor windows are 15-pane sashes with plain reveals, except for the window above the entrance, which has a moulded architrave, a projecting sill, and a simple cornice. The doorway is framed by plain reveals and features panelled double doors topped by a large overlight.
Additionally, a Victorian cast-iron letter box is incorporated into the right-hand end of the Church Street facade.
Local climate
Royal Bank of Scotland sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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