Edinburgh Savings Bank, 28-30 Hanover Street, Edinburgh

The Edinburgh Savings Bank, located at 28-30 Hanover Street in Edinburgh, was designed by Oldrieve, Bell and Paterson in 1939. This impressive building is a massive four-storey structure with an attic and features a five-bay neo-Greek cubic design. The exterior is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar, which has been cleaned, and includes a base course with a granite plinth, a heavy dentilled cornice, and a solid parapet.

On the Hanover Street elevation, there is a tetrastyle Ionic portico in antis, featuring full-height fluted columns. The central entrance has a massive corniced door flanked by grilled windows, with three large corniced windows above, each surmounted by roundels. The outer bays are blank, with rope-moulded and corniced doorcases at the ground level, which are blind to the south.

The Rose Street elevation consists of seven bays, with five central bays that have tall windows and additional square windows below the cornice. The outer bays are defined as the outer portico bays above.

The rear elevation also has seven bays, with a window that rises through three stories at the center, accompanied by two windows above. The fenestration is otherwise regular, featuring a granite architraved door to the left at ground level and a large window to the right, along with ten attic windows in the parapet.

The building has timber sash and case windows as well as metal multi-pane windows.

Inside, there is an octagonal vestibule flanked by corner rooms that leads to a fine Greek cross plan banking hall, which includes two additional rooms in the far corners. A stained glass window is positioned on the axis, guarded by a pair of giant columns. The front of the hall features a balcony, alabaster doorcases, and four original suspended bronze lamps, with a trabeated ceiling. A mezzanine floor has been added at the center.