Royal Bank Of Scotland, 29-31 North Bridge, Edinburgh

Arthur George Sydney Mitchell and George Wilson, 1898. 4-storey and attic free Scots Renaissance corner block; 5 bays to High Street, 2 to North Bridge treated similarly; 3 corner turret bays with copper ogee roofs and tall finials. 1st floor canted mullioned and transomed oriels; 2nd floor giant recessed keyblocked arches carved with grotesque animal heads; paired segmental-arched 3rd floor windows; projecting, bracketed and crenellated parapets. Corner stop-chamfered entrance bay with 2-leaf timber panelled door and border-glazed fanlight; blank scrolled cartouche in chamfer; carved panels to frieze. Polished cream coursed ashlar; pink granite facing at ground and at corner entrance bay. Base course; string courses at each floor. Bull-faced red ashlar to rear; polished margins; white glazed brick to Carrubber's Close.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay basement level to left; rectangular triple key-blocked ground bays (3 as mezzanine shop-fronts; pink granite surrounds); keyblocked carriage arch to Carrubber's Close at outer right. Carved masks between bays at 1st floor cill course; blank carved cartouches above 1st floor bays; thistles carved at base of principal turret. Aediculed dormers with triangular-pedimented dormerheads containing broken-segmental pediments.

W (NORTH BRIDGE) ELEVATION: gable all as N elevation but no dormers. Aediculed stack; segmental pediment broken by pinnacle projecting beyond stack.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: advancing stepped bays from outer left.

E ELEVATION: plain, rendered; faces aerial gap site.

Modern glazed shop fronts at ground; some original 24-pane timber casements at ground. 1st and 2nd floors modern metal-framed and uPVC casements; 3rd floor timber sash and case; 12-pane dormer and turret glazing appear original. Grey slate pitched roof; corniced end stacks; large corniced apex stack; large corniced stack to rear, no cans. Decorative cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: modern refurbished interior.