Trustee Savings Bank, 11, 13 High Street, Insch is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. 6 related planning applications.
Trustee Savings Bank, 11, 13 High Street, Insch
- WRENN ID
- white-nave-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Address
- Trustee Savings Bank, 11, 13 High Street, Insch, AB52 6JE
- OS grid reference
- NJ 633 282
- Coordinates
- 57.34301, -2.61124
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Trustee Savings Bank, located at 11 and 13 High Street, Insch, was originally built in 1867 as a Town and County Bank by William Smith. It is constructed from granite ashlar in a Renaissance style. The building is two storeys and has an attic. The front elevation is tripartite, with a segmentally pedimented, balustraded, Roman Doric column porch centrally placed on the ground floor, accented by prominent quoin angles. The upper floors feature a four-window arrangement, topped by a cornice and parapet. A shallow, two-window projection sits within the gable, flanked by twin chimneys. Contracts for the building's construction were reported in the Aberdeen Journal on June 12th, 1867.
Local climate
Trustee Savings Bank, 11, 13 High Street, Insch receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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