Royal Bank of Scotland is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Bank. 9 related planning applications.
Royal Bank of Scotland
- WRENN ID
- proud-pavement-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 97, Fishergate, PR1 2AE
- OS grid reference
- SD 537 293
- Coordinates
- 53.75802, -2.7026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland is a bank building located on Fishergate, dating from the late 19th century. It features ashlar stonework on a granite plinth and has a hipped slate roof behind a parapet. The building occupies a corner site, also facing Lune Street, and is designed in a Mannerist style.
It is two storeys high with a five-window front range on the first floor, including the corner. The corner and the centre left and right sections have canted sashed bay windows, with a sash window in the centre. The windows are adorned with moulded architraves topped with pediments and have blind balustrading beneath their sills. There is an additional sash window on the far right, which features a carved swag and cartouche above it.
On the ground floor, the building has moulded round-arched openings, each with keystones and brackets, and there is a moulded impost band with channelled rustication below. The corner entrance is flanked by granite columns, and there is another doorway on the far right with a moulded architrave and keystone. The granite plinth is complemented by a moulded cornice between the floors and a full entablature above the first floor, which is topped with a balustrade. The Lune Street side has a similar façade with pedimented sashes on the first floor. There is a late 20th-century extension to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Royal Bank of Scotland sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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