Main Street, Airdrie Savings Bank Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Listed Building Description
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James Davidson and Son, dated 1920. 3-storey, classical style bank building on corner site. Red ashlar sandstone, rusticated at ground floor, concealed slate roof. Polished granite base course, corniced fascia panel over ground floor, composite-capitalled pilastrade to 1st and 2nd floors, dentilled cornice with balustraded parapet and inscribed panels. Keystoned round-headed windows with moulded large-pane frames to ground floor, architraved and pedimented windows to 1st floor, 4-pane sash and case frames to 1st and 2nd floors; canted architraved window to angle at upper floors. Finialled elongated dome at angle, corniced stacks. MAIN STREET ELEVATION: door with fanlight to angle at left with granite-columned doorpiece, 2 windows at centre, door with fanlight to right; 3 windows to 1st and 2nd floor, canted window to angle at left. SUNNYSIDE ROAD ELEVATION: 2 windows to ground, 1st and 2nd floors. INTERIOR: not seen.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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The building contractors were Louden and Inglis. The inscribed parapet panel at the Main Street elevation reads 'Airdrie Savings Bank Instituted 1835'; that at Sunnyside Road 'Coatbridge Office erected 1920'.
Listed Building References
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COATBRIDGE EXPRESS, 7 September 1921; Allan Peden, THE MONKLANDS, AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1992), p41 information ex Monklands District Council.