Bank Of Scotland, 26 Colquhoun Square, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Bank. 3 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 26 Colquhoun Square, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- stark-stronghold-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1993
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 26 Colquhoun Square, Helensburgh, G84 8AD
- OS grid reference
- NS 295 824
- Coordinates
- 56.00483, -4.73476
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 26 Colquhoun Square in Helensburgh, was likely designed by John Burnet Snr in 1861. This two-storey, three-bay building features a square plan and is constructed from stugged cream sandstone rubble, with ashlar on the south elevation and polished ashlar dressings. Key architectural elements include an ashlar plinth, cill courses, a mullioned eaves course, a cornice, a parapet, and rusticated quoins.
On the south elevation, which faces Colquhoun Square, the building has a symmetrical three-bay layout. The central entrance features a pilastered doorcase with an entablature, leading to a round-arched door with an architrave and a floreated keystone, along with a panelled fanlit door. Flanking the entrance are bipartite windows, and above, the first floor has a central window flanked by bipartites.
The west elevation includes a bipartite window at the ground floor and two widely spaced windows on the first floor, with a carved circular panel in the center inscribed with "UB 1861." The east elevation has a single window located on the outer right at the first floor. The north (rear) elevation features four bays at the first floor, with windows in three bays and a narrow vent in the second bay from the right.
The building is fitted with plate glass sash and case windows and has a grey slate piended roof.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 26 Colquhoun Square, Helensburgh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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