69 George Street, Edinburgh

69 George Street is a large four-storey and attic bank building designed by George Washington Browne in 1905, located on a corner site in Edinburgh. The building is constructed from polished cream ashlar sandstone and features mullioned and transomed windows. At the ground level, there is a base course and a cill course, with a cornice on the ground floor and a cill course on the first floor, both articulated by pedestals that support pilasters framing the upper floor windows, which are arranged in a tripartite layout. The first floor has panelled pilasters, while the second and third floors are adorned with giant order Corinthian pilasters, enriched aprons, and a frieze. The building is topped with a lavish dentilled cornice and a pierced parapet. The curved corner is highlighted by windows similar to those on the other elevations, and features an elaborate doorway with pilasters and a segmental pediment at the ground level. Each elevation has three bays arranged similarly.

On the George Street elevation, there is a broad arched window to the left at ground level, with a secondary door to the right and a pair of later small bipartite windows in between, possibly replacing a shopfront. Small corniced windows flank the central feature on each floor, with an attic gable that has a segmental pedimented bipartite window.

The Hanover Street elevation includes a bipartite window to the right at ground level, and corniced windows on the second and third floors, with a wallhead stack above. To the left, there is a three-bay windowpiece with double transomed windows at ground level, and a gable similar to that on the George Street elevation.

The building features timber casement windows and has a piended and gabled roof covered with grey-green slates. There are corniced and pilastered wallhead stacks, also covered with grey slates.

Inside, the Telling Room was completely refitted by Henry Wylie and Partners in 1964.