Bank Of Scotland, 2 High Street, Port William is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 November 1994. Bank. 2 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 2 High Street, Port William
- WRENN ID
- floating-entrance-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1994
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 2 High Street, Port William, DG8 9SL
- OS grid reference
- NX 339 434
- Coordinates
- 54.7588, -4.58228
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 2 High Street in Port William, is a two-storey bank and bank house built in the later 19th century. It features squared and coursed whin masonry with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, including rybated margins, quoins with margin draft, a band course between the floors, an eaves course at lintel level, an eaves cornice, and a base course. All windows have recessed aprons.
On the north elevation, which serves as the bank house entrance, there are three bays. The central bay has a corniced and pilastered doorpiece with a modern panelled door and a deep plate glass fanlight. The fenestration is regularly arranged, with a narrow window at the centre of the first floor and wider windows on the ground floor.
The east elevation, which is the bank entrance, consists of five bays, with two bays on the left recessed. It features a corniced and pilastered doorpiece in the outer right bay. The fenestration is also regularly disposed, showcasing a variety of glazing in timber sash and case windows, with 4-pane glazing on the ground floor and 6-pane glazing on the first floor. The building has pebble-dashed wallhead stacks on the east and west sides, and a piended platform roof with octagonal cans.
The boundary walls, railings, and gatepiers consist of low whin rubble walls topped with red sandstone saddleback coping, which are surmounted by cast-iron fleur-de-lis railings. The red sandstone ashlar gatepiers are conical-capped and octagonal, with one topped by an ashlar ball.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 2 High Street, Port William sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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 0.2°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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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