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

Peddie and Kinnear, dated 1863. 3-storey, 5-bay, Italianate commercial premises, sandstone ashlar, base course, cornice above ground floor, at 1st floor cill, at 2nd floor cill with fleuron and guilloche band, above 2nd floor, consoled at eaves.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall, square headed, architraved openings at ground, that at centre with consoled cornice, those flanking and to outer right altered from former windows, now forming colonnade, modern shopfront behind, 1st floor windows architraved, chamfered, shouldered heads with moulding, fleuron to each side, 2nd floor with columned bipartites, segmental heads, fleuron to centre, paterae between consoles at eaves cornice.

N ELEVATION: adjoining 59/61 High Street at ground and 1st floors, squared and snecked sandstone gable end exposed at 3rd floor.

S ELEVATION: adjoining 67/69 High Street.

E ELEVATION: squared and snecked sandstone, extensive modern additions extending E and obscuring elevation.

Timber sash and case windows, plate glass glazing. Paired piended roofs, grey slates. Paired, corniced ashlar stacks to N and S with 6 polygonal cans, 3 can stack breaking eaves to centre of E elevation.

INTERIOR: upper floors not seen 1997.