Clydesdale Bank, 134 Cathcart Street, Greenock is a Grade B listed building in the Inverclyde local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1979. 3 related planning applications.

Clydesdale Bank, 134 Cathcart Street, Greenock

WRENN ID
muffled-floor-storm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Inverclyde
Constituency
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West MP: Martin McCluskey (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 September 1979
Address
Clydesdale Bank, 134 Cathcart Street, Greenock, PA15 1BQ
OS grid reference
NS 280 761
Coordinates
55.94716, -4.75553
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 130-132 Cathcart Street in Greenock, is a bold three-storey corner building designed by James Thomson in 1899, showcasing a free Renaissance style. The building is constructed of red ashlar and features a splayed corner bay with a distyle in antis Corinthian doorpiece, granite column shafts, individual entablatures on console brackets, a coat of arms, and bridging segmental pediments. Above the doorpiece, there are single windows, with the second-floor window supported by Ionic columns.

On the Cathcart Square elevation, there are two bays, while the Cathcart Street elevation has three bays. The design includes superimposed orders and early German Renaissance pedimented bipartites with slim columnar mullions set within channelled pilasters at the ground floor. The first floor features consoled windows that bear balconies supported by Doric pilasters, and the second floor has architrave windows with panelled balconies in pilasters, coupled with Doric pilasters and inner single Ionic pilasters. The building is topped with a bold modillioned cornice and a parapet adorned with quatrefoiled circles. The Cathcart Street elevation also includes a doorpiece and a former shop at the ground floor, with architraved windows above that have cornices at the first floor, and a continuous entablature without a parapet.

Local climate

Clydesdale Bank, 134 Cathcart Street, Greenock sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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