North Of Scotland Bank, 65 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
North Of Scotland Bank, 65 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- final-gable-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- North Of Scotland Bank, 65 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5TF
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 654
- Coordinates
- 55.86111, -4.25502
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The North of Scotland Bank, located at 65 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, was built around 1840 and later remodelled with the addition of a top floor and attic by L H Ross around 1928 and 1947. The building features Renaissance architectural details and consists of four storeys plus an attic. It has five bays facing St Vincent Street and seven bays on West Nile Street, with a shop front at No 28.
The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled ground floor. The entrance on St Vincent Street is marked by a distyle in antis Roman Doric doorpiece. On the first floor, there is a distyle in antis Greek Ionic tripartite window above the entry, along with shouldered architraved windows that have consoled cornices. The second floor features shouldered and lugged architraved, corniced windows, a sculpted guilloche frieze, a dentil band, and a mutule cornice with a monogrammed cartouche (NSB) at the northwest corner. The attic showcases banded masonry and blocked architraves around wide windows. The building is topped with a slate mansard roof that includes segmental pedimented dormers.
Local climate
North Of Scotland Bank, 65 St Vincent 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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