Bank, 32 Eglinton Street, Beith is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1980. 6 related planning applications.
Bank, 32 Eglinton Street, Beith
- WRENN ID
- shifting-outpost-sedge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1980
- Address
- Bank, 32 Eglinton Street, Beith, KA15 1AQ
- OS grid reference
- NS 347 539
- Coordinates
- 55.75021, -4.63419
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A later 19th-century bank, located at 32 Eglinton Street, Beith, it incorporates a former bank agent's house. The building is two storeys and an attic, with five bays, and takes the form of an Italianate provincial bank. The central round-arched doorway is recessed behind a rusticated doorpiece, featuring a keyblock, cornice, and anthemion acroteria. Flanking the doorway are bipartite windows, also with acroteria to the cornices. The first-floor windows are architraved with decorative luggs. Outer rusticated pilasters support a cornice and panelled parapet. There are three gabled dormers on the roof. A base course and floor cill courses are present. The exterior is finished in polished buff ashlar.
The rear elevation has three bays, spanning two storeys, an attic and a basement. A canted bay is present on the left at the basement and elevated ground floor levels.
The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass; some rear windows feature lying pane glazing and plate glass 4-pane windows. Grey slates cover the roof, and there are rendered end stacks.
The ground-floor left interior has been modernized as a bank. The first floor, which was formerly the bank agent's accommodation, is accessed via a vestibule on the right, with a part-glazed timber panelled door. Features include dentilled cornices with decorative consoles, a curved stair with a cast-iron balustrade and a mahogany handrail, and a ceiling rose to the principal front room. Timber panelled doors are also present.
The building retains its original function as a bank. The first-floor agent’s accommodation exemplifies the style of the period, reflecting the agent's important role and requirement to be close to the bank. It is similar in style to another Bank of Scotland branch in Stewarton. Architectural historians believe this building, and the Stewarton example, were likely designed by Charles Kinnear. The style is described as a fairly plain palazzo style. The design is comparable to the Royal Bank of Scotland branch office in Stewarton, known to have been designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1857.
The building is marked as a "Bank" on the 1897 Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Bank, 32 Eglinton Street, Beith sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 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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