Royal Bank Of Scotland, 20 High Street, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1981. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 20 High Street, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- knotted-gateway-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1981
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Royal Bank Of Scotland, 20 High Street, Nairn, IV12 4AX
- OS grid reference
- NH 883 564
- Coordinates
- 57.58438, -3.86977
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 20 High Street in Nairn, is an earlier 19th-century building designed in a Classical style. It features two storeys and three bays, with a two-storey and attic, two-bay wing set back on the north gable. The main block has a polished ashlar facade, while the gables and extension are made of coursed dressed rubble with ashlar dressings.
The building is supported by giant outer pilasters and has a central door framed by a simple advanced, corniced doorpiece. All windows are adorned with architraves and apron panels, and the original block features lugged windows that extend to the ground. There is a band course between the ground and first floors, a modillioned cornice, and a broad shallow block pediment. The end stacks are panelled and corniced, and the roof is covered in slate.
An addition made around 1865 includes a corniced doorpiece, architraved windows, and a raised wallhead dormer with a pediment. The roof has a shallow piended slate design.
Local climate
Royal Bank Of Scotland, 20 High Street, Nairn receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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
- 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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