Royal Bank Of Scotland, 63, 65 High Street, Montrose

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 63 and 65 High Street in Montrose, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and dates back to 1863. This three-storey, five-bay building features an Italianate style and is constructed from sandstone ashlar. It has a base course and a cornice above the ground floor, with additional cornices at the first and second floor cills, decorated with a fleuron and guilloche band. The eaves are supported by consoles.

On the west (principal) elevation, there are tall, square-headed openings with architraves at the ground floor. The central opening has a consoled cornice, while the flanking openings and the one on the outer right have been altered from their original window forms, now creating a colonnade with a modern shopfront behind. The first-floor windows are also architraved, featuring chamfered, shouldered heads with moulding and a fleuron on each side. The second floor has columned bipartite windows with segmental heads, a central fleuron, and paterae positioned between the consoles at the eaves cornice.

The north elevation is attached to 59/61 High Street at the ground and first floors, revealing a squared and snecked sandstone gable end at the third floor. The south elevation is adjacent to 67/69 High Street. The east elevation is made of squared and snecked sandstone but has extensive modern additions that extend eastward and obscure the original elevation.

The building features timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. It has paired piended roofs covered with grey slates and paired, corniced ashlar stacks on the north and south sides, each with six polygonal cans, and a three-can stack that breaks the eaves at the center of the east elevation. The upper floors were not seen in 1997.