Bank, 40 Albyn Place, Aberdeen

The building at 40 Albyn Place in Aberdeen is an earlier 19th century bank with 20th century additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay villa constructed from finely finished, tooled coursed granite ashlar, featuring a base course, a dividing band course, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a doorway located in the center bay of the ground floor. This doorway has a balustraded balcony on the first floor, supported by two Tuscan columns, and features a two-leaf panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight above. There is a two-light window in the center of the first floor, and the flanking bays on both sides have three-windowed bowed bays on the ground and first floors.

On the west elevation, there is a single-storey flat-roofed addition to the right of the ground floor, with an autoteller set into the wall of the flanking bay to the left; the remainder of this elevation is blank. The south elevation is obscured by a 20th century addition. The east elevation has windows in the center bay on both the ground and first floors.

The building features predominantly four-pane timber sash and case windows, a piended grey slate roof with lead ridges, and coped wallhead stacks with square and circular cans. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the principal rooms on the ground floor showcase fine plasterwork, with some wall panelling. There are deep cartouche friezes, moulded cornicing, and a panelled ceiling with decorative mouldings at the intersections. Caryatids support a niche arch in the west room, while the remainder of the interior has been remodelled for use as a bank.

The property includes square-plan gatepiers to the north, topped with pyramidal caps, and a low kerb wall to the north. The remaining boundary walls are constructed from granite and brick coped rubble.