Bank Of Scotland, 26, 27 Market Square, Stonehaven

The Bank of Scotland, located at 26 and 27 Market Square in Stonehaven, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1862. This former bank, now used by The Royal British Legion, is a two-storey building with three bays and a piend roof, exhibiting a simple Italianate style. The façade features a consoled doorpiece and a single-storey bay with a corniced porch. There is a PK cipher at the quoin on the outer right, just below the cill band. The walls are constructed of narrow bands of coursed rubble, accented with polished dressings and rusticated quoins, and include a base course and a first-floor cill band. The openings are architraved, with segmentally-arched and bracketed designs at the ground level, and stiff-leaf colonette-mullions in the bipartite windows, which have stop-chamfered arrises.

On the south elevation, the principal entrance features a consoled cornice above a central two-leaf, six-panelled timber door, with a single window above it. Each outer bay has bipartite windows on both floors. There is an additional panelled timber door leading to a slightly set-back single-storey porch on the outer left, which has a flag pole base attached to the blocking course.

The west elevation, facing Barclay Street, is mostly blank, except for a single-storey bay on the right that has a small window below the cornice. The blocking course continues as a corniced frieze on the left, with a 21st-century extension added to the outer left.

The building features non-traditional late 20th-century glazing and is topped with grey slates. It has a single corniced ashlar wallhead stack with flues to the east and deeply overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends.

Surrounding the property are boundary walls, railings, and gates, including a low saddleback-coped dwarf wall with inset cast-iron railings and two cast-iron pedestrian gates adorned with decorative shield motifs.