Royal Bank of Scotland is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 May 1974. Bank. 6 related planning applications.
Royal Bank of Scotland
- WRENN ID
- worn-lancet-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1974
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Royal Bank of Scotland, 125 Bute Street, Butetown, CF10 5AE
- OS grid reference
- ST 190 747
- Coordinates
- 51.46624, -3.1664
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Royal Bank of Scotland is a three-storey building with three bays facing Bute Street and a semi-hexagonal return facing north onto West Bute Street. It is constructed of painted stucco and features a dentil cornice, quoins, and a rusticated plinth. There are string courses at sill level on each floor, a slate roof, and stucco chimneys with classical detailing. The windows facing West Bute Street are plain, while the second-floor windows have shouldered architraves. The first-floor windows are adorned with a cornice and small brackets beneath the sill string course, similar to those at 122-124 Bute Street. The ground floor windows facing Bute Street are similar but have larger brackets beneath the sill level string course. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension to the banking hall on the ground floor facing north, designed in a matching style, with windows and doorway architraves like those on the second floor, but with brackets below the string course. A balustrade is present above this extension.
Inside, the banking hall features hall panelling and a panelled counter, supported by Corinthian columns, and has a simple moulded cornice on the ceiling.
Local climate
Royal Bank of Scotland sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
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- 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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