Royal Bank Of Scotland

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET 664-1/12/76 (West side) No.269 Royal Bank of Scotland

GV II

Bank. 1893, by WW Gwyther. Sandstone ashlar. French Renaissance style. Rectangular plan at right angles to street. EXTERIOR: 3-and-half-storeys; 3:1 windows. Low plinth of red granite, string-courses between floors, a prominent cornice, a parapet with balustrades over the first and third bays, and a pavilion roof over the entrance bay finished with a wrought-iron corona. The entrance bay to the right has a Tuscan porch with raised lettering: BANK on the frieze and an enriched swan-neck pediment, protecting a round-headed doorway with keyed architrave and foliated metal tracery in the fanlight also lettered: BANK. Canted bay windows at first and second floors; and a pilastered and pedimented attic window in front of the pavilion roof, with scrolled supporters on flanking parapets with urn terminals. The 3-window portion to the left has pilasters to the ground floor (the outer with channelled rustication); an Ionic screen at first floor in front of recessed windows which have moulded architraves with triple keystones; shorter windows at second floor with shouldered architraves; and 3 attic dormers, that in the centre with a pilastered and segmentally-pedimented architrave. Windows at second floor and attic level are 1/1 sashes, but the others have altered glazing. Gable chimneys and ridge chimney. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3353917292