Bank Of Scotland, 8 Morningside Road, Edinburgh

Peddie and Kinnear, dated 1873. 2-storey, basement (to rear) and attic, symmetrical 5-bay mansard-roofed square-plan palazzo-style banking house. Tooled coursed ashlar; snecked squared and stugged rubble to rear. Base course; cill courses; hoodmould course; prominently bracketed eaves course. Long and short quoins; raised, lugged and stop-chamfered window architraves.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: segmental-arched windows to 3 centre bays to ground floor; timber-panelled doors with fanlights in key-blocked corniced and consoled doorways to outer bays (cash-point inserted into original door to left). 3 timber pedimented dormers to attic.

NE ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated. Ashlar pedimented single window off centre right breaking eaves at attic floor level. 'PK' monogram below eaves course to far left.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: modern door to left. Irregularly fenestrated.

SW ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated to ground floor; panelled aprons to windows. Square moulded date stone panel, dated '1873' above 1st floor string course.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows to sides and rear. Piended platformed roof; grey slates; coped and corniced wallhead ashlar stacks to SW and NE; coped ridge stack to rear; circular clay cans to SW and NW. Cill and hoodmould courses passing over downpipes.

INTERIOR: ground floor completely redesigned to accommodate modern banking operations; original stair to right hand entrance with original decorative pierced cast-iron balustrade and mahogany banister. Deep cornices and original chimneypieces to 1st floor drawing room and dining room (plain large Doric-pilastered chimneypiece to drawing room). Canted corner fireplaces to attic bedrooms (blocked).

BOUNDARY WALL and GATEPIERS: 2 pairs of coped and corniced ashlar square-plan gatepiers to SW and SE corners connected by curved low ashlar wall with modern cast-iron railings.