Bank Of Scotland, 127-133 Main Street, Alexandria is a Grade C listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1996. Bank. 5 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, 127-133 Main Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, 127-133 Main Street, Alexandria, G83 0NX
- OS grid reference
- NS 390 801
- Coordinates
- 55.98705, -4.58132
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located at 127-133 Main Street in Alexandria, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and built in 1891. This two-storey building with an attic features a three-bay Italianate style and has a rectangular, near-symmetrical plan. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with ashlar margins and dressings, a base course, and a blocking course between the ground and first floors. The exterior includes monogrammed consoles, a string course, a bracketed eaves cornice, and a balustraded parapet.
The main elevation consists of a five-bay ground floor with a central porch supported by part-fluted Ionic columns and a balustrade. The entrance features a segmental-headed door with a fanlight above. An impost course rises as hoodmoulds over the segmental-headed windows, and there is a broad segmental-headed door to the outer left, with a keystone and monogrammed consoles supporting the string course cornice. At the first floor, a window is topped with a segmental shell pediment, flanked by entablatured bipartite windows. The balustraded parapet is punctuated by aediculed dormers.
The building has plate glass timber windows at the ground floor with a segmental upper sash, and timber sash and case windows at the first floor, including four-pane sash and case windows. The roof is a grey slate mansard with bronze flashing.
Inside, there is a modern banking hall. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative rainwater heads.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, 127-133 Main Street, Alexandria 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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