Old Bank House, 16 Bruce Street, Lochmaben

Dated 1786 on kitchen fireplace lintel, but probably

incorporating earlier fabric. 3-bay house with single storey

street elevation; classical details, off-set over basement

and recessed from roadway. Painted ashlar (flanks and garden

front rubble-built).

STREET (N) ELEVATION: giant stylised Corinthian pilasters

with thistle detail, flank bays; openings in lugged cavetto

architraves; short flight of steps to central door with

glazed upper panels and rectangular fanlight; continuous

frieze and cornice; coped end stacks; modern tile roof.

Pointed attic openings in gables. Garden front centre bay

has basement door below finely-executed Venetian window with

flanking giant Corinthian pilasters; also canted dormer;

margined ground floor windows in outer bays.

Interior altered when building became a bank in 1847;

central entrance hall became a public area, banking room on

left; stair rebuilt against right (W) gable and sealed off

from hall by doorway, fenestration altered on gable. Good

decorative detailing in principal rooms.

Set behind low coped wall with rusticated ashlar gatepiers,

iron railings removed. Large quadrangular garden to S

enclosed by tall ashlar-coped rubble-built walls. Recessed

low wing right, late 18th/early 19th century in appearance,

originally coach-house/stables, now contains domestic flat;

in corporates early walling at low level, to garden.