Clydesdale Bank, 60-64 High Street, Dunfermline is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1981. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
Clydesdale Bank, 60-64 High Street, Dunfermline
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-rampart-woodpecker
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1981
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thought to have been built 1898 for North of Scotland Bank; reconstructed 1981-82 by Kenneth Oliver. 3-storey; 5-bay; rectangular-plan commercial building. Free Baroque with upper bays divided by engaged columns of moulded concave section; segmental-headed pediments to parapet and turret-like corner bay with conical roof. Polished ashlar street elevations. Base course; mutuled projecting cornice above ground floor; band courses joining window cills to upper floors; upper band course forming frieze below deep projecting eaves cornice; balustraded parapet to roof. Architraved segmental-headed windows with keystones to ground floor; fielded panels above 1st floor windows; bracketed projecting cills and rounded upper edges to 2nd floor windows.
S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: altered entrance with deep splayed reveals and stepped lintel to outer left; steps up to late 20th century 2-leaf steel door. Segmental-headed former entrance (now blocked) with keystone to angled corner bay to outer right. Window to each bay in between. Outer left bay canted to upper floors; each with 3-light window; rounded head above eaves cornice with concave surround set into segmental-headed pediment with keystone and mutuled cornice. Pedimented window to 1st floor of turret-like bay to outer right; window above; conical roof with ball-ended finial above eaves cornice. Large banded windows to upper floors of 3 central bays. Segmental-headed pediment with keystone above 2 bays to right; carved panel at centre; mutuled cornice.
E (CROSS WYND) ELEVATION: 4 bays; segmental-headed former entrance (now blocked) with keystone to angled corner bay to outer left; pedimented window to 1st floor of turret-like section above; window to 2nd floor; conical roof above eaves cornice. Regular banded fenestration to right bays. Segmental-headed pediment with keystone above 2 bays to left; carved panel at centre; mutuled cornice.
Timber frame casements and 2-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected (1998).
Detailed Attributes
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