Bank Of Scotland, 56 Albert Street, Kirkwall is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 March 1999. Bank. 3 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 56 Albert Street, Kirkwall
- WRENN ID
- roaming-column-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1999
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Later 19th century. 3-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan Italianate bank building with 3, evenly disposed shell-headed niches to 3rd floor. Polished sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; random rubble to sides. Base course; cill course to ground floor; cornice course to 3rd floor; coped blocking course with consoled dies over shell niches; terminal dies to angles. Lugged architraves to ground and 1st floor windows; plain architraves to 3rd floor windows; consoled cornices to entrances; bracketed cills to 1st floor windows. Quoins.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: timber-panelled door with large rectangular fanlight to doorways to outer left and right at ground; window in each bay remaining between. Window in each bay at 2nd floor. Alternate window and niche at 3rd floor.
SW AND NE (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: irregularly fenestrated; wallhead stack to SW elevation.
4-pane timber sash and case windows. Roof material unseen; corniced wallhead stack to SW; polygonal cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: unseen, 1998.
Detailed Attributes
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