Royal Bank Of Scotland, 6-8 Gordon Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 July 1966. Bank. 14 related planning applications.
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 6-8 Gordon Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- other-column-acorn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North MP: Martin Rhodes (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1966
- Type
- Bank
- OS grid reference
- NS 589 653
- Coordinates
- 55.86063, -4.25504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 6-8 Gordon Street in Glasgow, was designed by David Rhind between 1854 and 1857 for the Commercial Bank. This Renaissance-style building stands three to four storeys high and features a double-height banking hall on the ground floor, with offices above. The façade consists of 11 bays arranged in a 3-5-3 pattern, divided by quoins, with the central bays raised. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, showcasing a vermiculated rusticated ground floor and quoins, along with a roll moulded plinth.
The ground floor has arched openings adorned with keystone masks, an incised frieze, and sculpted cherubic panels representing industry, complemented by stepped aprons. A dentil band and guilloche frieze enhance the upper sections. The first-floor windows are designed as aedicules with balconies, supported by Corinthian antae and columns, featuring richly sculpted tympana of cherubim with heraldry above the central bay.
The second-floor windows are plain, framed with lugged, dropped architraves. This level also includes an entablature with a guilloche frieze and sculpted panels over quoin strips, along with a dentil band and modillion cornice. The outer bays have a balustrade die parapet, while the central bays feature a third-floor eaves gallery with keyblocked arched windows set in a Corinthian semi-engaged colonnade, topped with an independent, deeply bracketed cornice.
Inside, the banking hall was redesigned by James McCallum in 1937, featuring marble lining and a shallow coved ceiling. The frieze includes sculpted tablets representing industry.
Local climate
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 6-8 Gordon 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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- Related listed building consents — 14 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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