Bank Of Scotland, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 3 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, Main Street, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- broken-parapet-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, Main Street, Golspie, KW10 6RJ
- OS grid reference
- NC 835 001
- Coordinates
- 57.97543, -3.97022
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland building on Main Street, Golspie, dates from around 1814 and was originally constructed as an asymmetrical two-story bank and manager's house. The walls are predominantly harled with ashlar margins and dressings. The main street frontage (southeast) has three bays, with a projecting, gabled bay to the left and a gabled ashlar porch set in a re-entrant angle. A single-story gabled bay extends from the northeast gable. The southwest facade has four bays, with projecting, gabled outer bays featuring canted ashlar bay windows on the ground floor. A square porch, built mainly of ashlar, is located in the re-entrant angle. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with tripartite and bipartite designs throughout. Small attic windows are situated in the gables, and truncated end stacks rise from the roof. The building is covered by a slate roof.
A low, coped, harled rubble retaining wall is present, alongside square, tooled ashlar gate piers topped with pyramidal caps. A pair of cast-iron carriage gates with spearhead detailing is flanked by a matching pedestrian gate and railings.
The building was formerly the British Linen Bank, as shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1873.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 — 3 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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