Trustee Savings Bank, 705, 707 Govan Road, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 May 1987. Former savings bank. 5 related planning applications.
Trustee Savings Bank, 705, 707 Govan Road, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- nether-beam-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow South West MP: Dr Zubir Ahmed (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1987
- Type
- Former savings bank
- Address
- Trustee Savings Bank, 705, 707 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 2YJ
- OS grid reference
- NS 556 655
- Coordinates
- 55.86171, -4.30874
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Trustee Savings Bank, located at 705-707 Govan Road in Glasgow, was designed by Eric A Sutherland and built between 1906 and 1907. This four-storey building features a four by four bay design with identical facades facing both Govan Road and Broomloan Road, highlighted by a prominent corner bay. The ground floor is finished in polished granite and includes a corner entrance supported by Doric columns. A rusticated arcade features four arched windows on the east side and three arched windows along with a stair door on the north side.
The first floor is clad in channelled ashlar and showcases a projecting corner oriel, which is flanked by large sculptured panels displaying the Royal Coat of Arms. Giant paired Corinthian columns extend through the second and third floors, positioned between the corner oriel and the advanced end bays. These end bays feature balconies on the second floor and open segmental pediments on the third floor. Small windows between the columns are topped with cornices and open segmental pediments at the second floor architraves on the third floor. All window frames have been modernized. The building also includes an entablature and an unusual corner turret wash-house, with a flat roof that serves as a "back court." The interior has been modernized as well.
Local climate
Trustee Savings Bank, 705, 707 Govan Road, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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