Bank House, High Street, Dunblane is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Bank. 7 related planning applications.
Bank House, High Street, Dunblane
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank House, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0EE
- OS grid reference
- NN 781 012
- Coordinates
- 56.18831, -3.96451
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bank House is a bank building from 1835, featuring two stories and three symmetrical bays with a gabled roof. The exterior is made of harled sandstone rubble with painted ashlar margins, and it has architraved windows with projecting sills.
On the east (principal) elevation, the building has a regular arrangement of windows, with a central two-leaf, timber-panelled door set in a block pedimented surround, topped by a letterbox fanlight. The wallheads at the gable ends are supported by consoles.
The west (rear) elevation also shows a regular pattern of windows. The north (side) elevation maintains this regularity but includes a narrow, single-storey gabled pavilion wing. The south (side) elevation features a window on the first floor to the right, with a smaller two-storey, advanced gabled pavilion wing to the left and a single-storey, advanced gabled bay forming the right return of Bank House.
The windows throughout are 12-pane sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slates and lead flashing, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods and coped gable stacks.
Inside, the ground floor has been remodeled for banking purposes.
Attached to the rear of the bank house is a mid-19th century bank addition. This single-storey, rectangular-plan gabled structure is built with harled walls and yellow sandstone margins, featuring a bull-faced base course and shouldered, coped skews. The east (principal) elevation has two bays, with a segmentally-arched bipartite window on the left and a projecting cornice. Stone steps lead to a segmentally-arched entrance on the right, which has a shield bearing a Saltire device on the entablature and a consoled cornice. The gablehead includes blind oculi. The north (side) elevation has a three-bay regular fenestration, while the south (side) elevation also has three bays with two windows.
The boundary wall is low and coped, featuring plain, square-plan gatepiers at the front. There is a high, coped rubble wall that encloses the garden at the rear, which slopes down towards the river.
Local climate
Bank House, High Street, Dunblane sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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