Bank Of Scotland, 32-32A Chambers Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 April 1977. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

Bank Of Scotland, 32-32A Chambers Street, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
patient-transept-wind
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 April 1977
Type
Commercial building
Address
Bank Of Scotland, 32-32A Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HU
OS grid reference
NT 257 733
Coordinates
55.94734, -3.19115
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Bank of Scotland, located at 32-32A Chambers Street in Edinburgh, is a three-storey and attic commercial building designed in the Classical Revival style by Lessels and Taylor in 1906. It features a symmetrical five-bay facade on a prominent corner, with a curving quadrant corner bay that rises to a slated octagonal dome. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a channeled ground floor. It has a cill course at the first floor, a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course at the top.

The facade is divided by half-fluted Ionic pilasters on the first and second floors, while Roman Doric pilasters with obelisk finials are present at the attic level. The main doorway is located at the corner bay, with tripartite windows above. The first floor features Roman Doric pilasters, while the second floor has round-arched windows flanked by Ionic pilasters and includes balustraded aprons. The elevation facing George IV Bridge mirrors that of Chambers Street, with predominantly segmental-arched and key-blocked windows on both the first and second floors.

The building primarily has four-pane glazing in its segmental and round-arched timber sash and case windows, with curved glazing at the corner. The roof is covered with grey Scottish slate, and there are end stacks with clay cans.

Local climate

Bank Of Scotland, 32-32A Chambers Street, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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