Clydesdale Bank, 2 Market Street, Bo'Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Bank. 1 related planning application.
Clydesdale Bank, 2 Market Street, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- final-portal-lake
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Clydesdale Bank, 2 Market Street, Bo'Ness, EH51 9AD
- OS grid reference
- NS 998 816
- Coordinates
- 56.01769, -3.60775
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Clydesdale Bank, located at 2 Market Street in Bo'ness, is a two-storey and attic, four-bay neo-Georgian and classical bank building designed by John Baird and James Thomson of Glasgow in 1904. It features a piend-and-platform roof, with polished red sandstone ashlar on the north and east sides, and harl on the south and west. The building includes a base course, ground and first-floor cill courses, an eaves cornice, and a deep blocking course. The ground floor windows have Gibbsian surrounds and entablatures, while the first-floor windows have architraved openings.
On the principal elevation (east), the central bays at ground level feature windows, with the left bay containing a cash dispensing machine and a small ironwork 'NIGHT SAFE' nearby. Each outer bay has a doorpiece with shallow Ionic pilasters and a two-leaf, twelve-panelled timber door, which is folding on the right side and is topped by a deep plate glass fanlight. The right doorpiece has a triangular pediment with 'BANK' inscribed in the frieze, while the left has an entablature. The first floor has regular fenestration, with two small flat-roofed dormer windows set back behind the blocking course, flanking a dominant stack.
The north elevation features three windows on each floor, with a single dormer above. The west elevation has a single window on each floor in the bay to the right of centre, along with two small closely-aligned dormer windows above. The south elevation has windows on each floor at the outer left and an additional window high up in the centre of the first floor.
The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows and is roofed with grey slates. The ashlar stacks are banded and coped, with the eastern stack being cavetto-coped and featuring a full complement of cans, mostly polygonal in shape. The ground floor windows on the east and north sides, except for the one with the cash machine, have cast-iron brattishing.
Inside, the bank features panelled timber shutters.
Local climate
Clydesdale Bank, 2 Market Street, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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