Clydesdale Bank, 45, 47 South High Street, Portsoy

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 45 and 47 South High Street in Portsoy, was built around 1838 in the style of William Robertson from Elgin. This two-storey building features a five-bay south-facing long elevation and a two-bay gable end facing the street. The street gable and the angle bay are constructed from tooled sandstone ashlar, while the rest of the building is made from rubble sandstone, with tooled and polished ashlar dressings.

The entrance bay is bowed and slightly recessed, featuring a later enlarged doorpiece that is console bracketed, corniced, and pilastered, with a two-leaf panelled door. Above the doorway, there is a bandcourse that forms a cill band for the first-floor angle window. A long single-storey projecting covered passage extension fronts four bays of the south elevation, which serves as the current entrance to the bank. The building has 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, a corniced ridge stack, and a bowed and piended slate roof with a pale pottery ridge. Decorative cast-iron eaves brackets enhance the building's architectural detail.