Clydesdale Bank, Ann Street, Stonehaven

The Clydesdale Bank, built in 1875 by James Matthews, is a two-storey, three-bay bank of Renaissance style, with a Roman Doric columned porch. It is constructed of narrow, stugged ashlar bands with polished dressings, and coursed rubble on the sides and rear. The building features base and first-floor cill courses, a modillioned eaves cornice, and a parapet. Windows are architraved, with bracketed cills on the ground floor and panelled aprons and consoled cornices on the first floor. A single-storey wing to the outer right is separately listed as No 20 Ann Street.

The principal, east-facing elevation includes steps leading to the central bay at ground level, featuring a projecting doorpiece with a panelled timber door, a plate glass fanlight, angle pilasters, and narrow lights to the returns. A projecting Doric-columned porch also features. There are windows to the flanking bays, with the left-hand bay incorporating an ATM. The first floor has regular fenestration, and a centre panel to the parapet incorporates a shouldered stack.

The south-facing (Evan Street) elevation is regularly fenestrated with a raised centre panel to the parapet. The west-facing (29 Evan Street entrance) elevation has a bay with a block-pedimented, pilastered doorpiece, a deep-set panelled timber door, a plate glass fanlight, and a window above on the first floor. There is also a barred window at ground level and a tiny barred opening to the left. The north-facing rear elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated, incorporating two gabletted bays which break the eaves.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, with etched glass in the first-floor west window. The roof is covered in grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks, some shouldered, with cans. Ashlar-coped skews are also present.

The bank's interiors have been modernized with lowered ceilings, but retain a part-glazed panelled timber screen door and dentilled cornicing to the vestibule. The interior of No 29 Evan Street retains a good decorative scheme, including decorative plasterwork cornices and ceiling roses, working timber shutters, architraved panelled doors, a white marble fireplace, a dog-leg staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, and an encaustic-tiled stairhall floor.

Low, flat-coped ashlar boundary walls, which have been altered, enclose the property. A corniced and coped, square-section ashlar gatepier is located on the west side.