Clydesdale Bank, 230 George Street, Aberdeen

Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (for Matthews and Mackenzie Architects) 1883. 3-storey, 4-bay Classical bank occupying prominent corner site. Grey granite ashlar with finely tooled dressings. Base course with channelled rustication; moulded cill courses at ground and 1st floors; prominent moulded cornice; further cornice to garreted 3rd storey above. Advanced corner bay with broad, round-arch doorway to W with giant clasping Ionic columns rising to 2nd storey; cast-iron grill with coat of arms and thistle motif set within arch; stone mullioned bipartite openings above. Channelled pilasters of equal height flank advanced corner bay to S and terminate bays at W and S elevations. Ionic columns flank recessed ground floor openings to W and to S corner bay. Further, recessed timber doorway to far right bay.

Plate glass glazing to timber sash and case windows; glazing bars to upper third at ground floor. Grey slate; shallow pitched roof with corniced ashlar stacks; octagonal clay cans.