National Bank Of Scotland, 177 Portobello High Street, Portobello, Edinburgh

T P Marwick, 1904 with later alterations. 3-storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan Renaissance palazzo style building, forming part of terrace. Polished ashlar, rusticated at ground; red polished granite base course; squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar to upper storey of NW elevation. Tall base course, band course between ground and 1st floor; dentilled and consoled cornice with balustrade to each bay and panelled pedestals between; architraved single windows to 1st and 2nd floors.

NE (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: windows to each bay and floor. Round-arched openings at ground. Panelled doors to outer bays in architraved and pedimented doorpieces; cartouche to outer right with carved initials, N B S- (National Bank of Scotland). Modern border-glazed windows in centre bays, now obscured to lower section by cash machines). Corniced windows to 1st floor. Cartouches to outer left and right at 2nd floor.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen, 1994.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows. Piended and platformed roof. Corniced wallhead stacks to NW elevation.

INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork, employing classical motifs, to principal banking room; classical motifs to chimneypiece.