Bank Of Scotland, 12 Church Street, Stranraer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bank Of Scotland, 12 Church Street, Stranraer
- WRENN ID
- vacant-wattle-tide
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 12 Church Street, Stranraer, DG9 7JG
- OS grid reference
- NX 059 607
- Coordinates
- 54.90396, -5.02796
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 12 Church Street in Stranraer, is a classical townhouse built in 1837. It is a three-storey building with an attic and features a four-bay L-plan layout, including a circular stair tower at the rear. The sides and ground floor are harled, while the upper storeys are finished in painted ashlar. Notable architectural details include a base course, a band course separating the ground and first floors, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with painted margins at the ground level and remains of quoins on the upper stories.
On the entrance elevation, there are fluted columns and a corniced entablature framing the doorway located in the penultimate bay to the left, which has a two-leaf timber door and a fanlight above. Single windows are aligned above the entrance, and the other bays feature regular fenestration. The attic includes canted dormers on the outer left and right sides.
The rear elevation showcases a central circular stair tower topped with a pepperpot roof, alongside a rectangular two-bay extension to the north. The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has piended sections, with coped gablehead stacks that have corniced cans and stone skews.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 12 Church Street, Stranraer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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