Clydesdale Bank, 10, 12 James Street, Helensburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 June 1993. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
Clydesdale Bank, 10, 12 James Street, Helensburgh
- WRENN ID
- unlit-hinge-solstice
- 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
- Clydesdale Bank, 10, 12 James Street, Helensburgh, G84 8AS
- OS grid reference
- NS 294 823
- Coordinates
- 56.00402, -4.73711
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clydesdale Bank, located at 10 and 12 James Street in Helensburgh, was built in 1857 and is a two-storey, three-bay classical bank. It features cream sandstone rubble with ashlar detailing on the west elevation. The building has a base course, a string course on the west side, raised margins, an eaves course, and paired bracketed eaves.
On the west entrance elevation, there is an ashlar porch at the center supported by Scamozzi Ionic columns, with an entablature and a plain doorway. Flanking the porch are slightly advanced tripartite windows, each topped with shallow pediments and adorned with wreath and garland decoration in the tympani. The first floor has three symmetrically arranged windows. To the right, there is a single-storey wing with a bipartite window, and there are additional windows at the ground and first floors on the return to the left. The left side features a recessed wing with a doorway and a window on the first floor.
The building includes a variety of plate glass sash and case windows and is topped with a grey slate roof, which has a corniced end stack to the right with moulded cans.
Local climate
Clydesdale Bank, 10, 12 James Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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