Clydesdale Bank, 35 High Street, South Queensferry

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 35 High Street in South Queensferry, is a two-storey Scots Baronial bank building dating from around 1860. It features a late 20th century single-storey extension with a shaped gable on the west side. The building has a first-floor string course, crowstepped dormer gables, and a dormer window set diagonally at the southwest corner. The ground floor has a tripled arched bank office front that is painted, supported by cast-iron attached columns. The principal elevation is constructed of rubble, while the other elevations are made of square and snecked rubble. A mid-19th century style lantern has recently been added to the right corner at the first floor.

On the south (principal) elevation, the tripled arched bank front is located on the left, with two windows and a door to the right. The door and windows have simple architraves, and there are attached columns with leaf capitals on chamfered plinths between the two windows and between the right window and the doorway. The stone margins and console brackets are punctuated with circular recesses. Above the central arch is a single window at the first floor, featuring a crowstepped dormer with a medallion inset with a flower-head and a thistle finial. To the right at the ground floor is a bipartite window, with an oriel window above at the first floor, which has a leaf frieze at the bottom corbel and chamfered sides with shaped stops. This section also has a crowstepped dormer with a medallion inset with a flower-head and a floreate finial. The right bay contains an arched doorway with a segmental fanlight and a blind panel above the door, topped with a cable-moulded hood. The diagonally set dormer window at the southwest angle of the first floor features a crowstepped gable with a medallion inset with a flower-head and a floreate finial.

The west elevation has an adjoining building at the ground floor, with a single window in the right bay of the gablehead at the first floor and another single window in the left bay of the rear part at the first floor. The north elevation is not visible. The east elevation also has an adjoining building at the ground floor, with a blank gablehead. There is a bipartite window in the right bay at the first floor and a single window in the centre bay at the first floor.

The building features two-pane timber sash and case windows, with modern glazing on the arched bank front. The roof is covered with grey slate and has crowstepped skews, along with lozenge-shaped, corniced gable stacks and a tall rendered stack at the rear. The interior was not seen in 2000.