Bank Of Scotland, 73 High Street, Nairn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 73 High Street, Nairn
- WRENN ID
- lone-passage-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 73 High Street, Nairn, IV12 4BW
- OS grid reference
- NH 884 565
- Coordinates
- 57.5849, -3.86777
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 73 High Street in Nairn, was designed by MacKenzie and Matthews in 1848 and later modified by William Mackintosh in 1874. This three-storey building features a polished ashlar frontage and is styled in the Renaissance architectural tradition.
The facade consists of four bays, with outer tetrastyle porches that have stilted keystoned segmental headed doorways. These doorways flank four closely set windows, which are separated by pilasters and repeat the door detail. The first floor has bipartite windows, with the outer pair supported by flanking paired pilasters that hold up an enriched segmental pediment. The center pair features moulded architraves, half pilasters with scroll bases, decorative apron panels, and bracketted pediments.
On the second floor, there are four windows with bracketted cills. The building is topped with a bracketted cornice that includes a panelled frieze and ante-fixae at regular intervals. The gable chimneys have corbelled cornices, and the roof is a shallow piended slate design.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 73 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 — 5 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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