Royal Bank Of Scotland, 203-205 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 203-205 Portobello High Street in Edinburgh, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1864, as indicated by its monogram and date. The building has undergone later alterations, including work by Dick Peddie and Walker Todd in 1935, and was subdivided and converted into four flats in 1985.

This three-storey, three-bay Italianate bank is slightly advanced from the terrace to the northwest. It features polished ashlar with a black polished granite base course, and polished red granite columns at the ground and first floors. The design includes a base course, a carved band course between the ground and first floors, and a moulded cill course. The second floor has a raised cill course with a band course directly below it, and an eaves course adorned with closely spaced consoles and rosettes between each console leading to the cornice. The windows have stop-chamfered margins with rosettes flanking each window within the architrave on the first and second floors.

On the northeast elevation facing Portobello High Street, there are tripartite windows on each storey in the centre, with column mullions at the ground and first floors. The ground floor windows are segmental-arched, while the first and second floor windows are basket-arched. The outer bays feature later granite doorpieces from the 1935 alterations, which are panelled with raised decorative details and have border-glazed oculi above. There is foliate decoration between the doorpiece and the window in the right bay, and each bay has panelled two-leaf doors (now painted) on the outer right. A carved date stone is located on the outer right, while a "P K" carved monogram stone is on the outer left.

The southwest elevation at the rear was not seen in 1994, but there is a single-storey later addition to the southeast. The building has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a piended and platformed slate roof, and a coped ashlar stack to the northwest. The interior was also not seen in 1994.