Clydesdale Bank, 35 High Street, South Queensferry

Circa 1860. 2-storey Scots Baronial bank building with late 20th century single storey extension with shaped gable to W. 1st floor string course; crowstepped dormer gables; dormer window set diagonally at SW corner. Tripled arched bank office front at ground floor painted; cast-iron attached columns. Rubble course to principal elevation; square and snecked rubble to other elevations. Recently attached mid 19th century style lantern at right corner at 1st floor.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tripled arched bank front to left: 2 windows with door to right; simple architraves to door and windows; attached columns with leaf capitals on chamfered plinths between two windows and between right window and doorway; stone shaped margins and console brackets punctuated with circular recess. Single window at 1st floor above central arch; crowstepped dormer with medallion inset with flower-head; thistle finial. Bipartite to right at ground floor; oriel window with bipartite at 1st floor above with leaf freize at bottom corbel; chamfered sides with shaped stops; crowstepped dormer with medallion inset with flower-head; floreate finial. Arched doorway at right bay; segmental fanlight; blind panel above door; cable-moulded hood. Diagonally set dormer window at SW angle at 1st floor; crowstepped gable with medallion inset with flower-head; floreate finial.

W ELEVATION: adjoining building at ground floor. Single window in right bay of gablehead at 1st floor. Single window in left bay of rear part at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: not seen.

E ELEVATION: adjoining building at ground floor. Blank gablehead. Bipartite in right bay at 1st floor. Single window in centre bay at 1st floor.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; modern glazing to arched bank front. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews. Lozenge shaped, corniced gable stacks; tall rendered stack to rear

INTERIOR: not seen 2000