Royal Bank Of Scotland, 3-5 Hope Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 March 1996. Bank.
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 3-5 Hope Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- strange-quoin-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1996
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sydney H Miller, 1930. Symmetrical 6-storey 5-bay inter-war classical former bank. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Channelled banded rustication at ground; architraved door at centre with consoled cornice; Greek key frieze above. Panelled 1st floor with similar window at centre. 3 centre bays above with giant free-standing 3-storey Ionic order columns in antis; glazing divided by bronze panels; outer bays with pilastered and corniced windows at 2nd floor, architraved and corniced windows at 3rd floor, recessed windows at 4th floor; plain entablature and cornice. Solid parapet broken by attic balconies. Similarly detailed 3-bay return to Hope Street Lane, with dressed rubble bay beyond.
Bronze multi-pane casement windows. Piend and platform copper roof; corniced ashlar stacks; grey slates.
INTERIOR: converted to modern retail use but remains of telling hall survive, including 4 massive columns and compartmented ceiling.
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