The Royal Bank Of Scotland, 92, 98 West George Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Bank, offices. 6 related planning applications.

The Royal Bank Of Scotland, 92, 98 West George Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
gilded-chapel-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Bank, offices
Address
The Royal Bank Of Scotland, 92, 98 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1PJ
OS grid reference
NS 589 655
Coordinates
55.86232, -4.25521
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 92-98 West George Street in Glasgow, is a six-storey modern classical bank and office building designed by James Miller in 1930. The building features a Portland stone façade with a marble-clad plinth and has five by two bays. It includes casement windows with metal glazing bars and fluted stylised Corinthian pilasters that extend from the ground to the first floor. The tall windows of the banking hall are complemented by first-floor windows that are separated by a bronze relief frieze. A full-height bronze doorpiece adorned with antefixae and an acroterion adds to the entrance's grandeur.

Additional architectural details include low relief angle panels at the first and sixth floor frieze level, a dentil band at the first-floor cornice, plain windows on the second floor, and a cill band on the third floor. The windows from the third to the sixth floors are set in tall recesses divided by pilaster strips and are horizontally separated by bronze relief panels between floors, topped with a main dentil cornice. There is a low entrance to the north on West Nile Street.

Inside, the banking hall features fluted pilasters, and the entry to the upper floors at 98 West George Street is lined with marble.

Local climate

The Royal Bank Of Scotland, 92, 98 West George Street, 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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