Royal Bank Of Scotland, 15 Bridge Street, Stranraer

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 15 Bridge Street in Stranraer, was designed by David Rhind and completed in 1874. This building is a two-storey, five-bay symmetrical T-plan structure built in a Palazzo style, with later additions at the rear. It features stugged sandstone with ashlar dressings and whinstone at the back. Architectural details include a base course, a dentilled band course, a dentilled and mutuled cornice, and a parapet with panelled dies. The building has rusticated quoins and long and short surrounds, with architraved windows that are corniced at the ground floor and shouldered at the first floor. The ground floor windows have panelled aprons, while the first-floor windows feature blind balustraded aprons that articulate the band course.

On the north elevation, there is a modern ramp leading to a central semi-circular pedimented doorpiece supported by scrolled consoles, with a timber door and fanlight. A single window is located at the first floor, and there is regular fenestration in the flanking bays. A cash machine is installed in a coped flat-roofed extension to the outer right.

The south elevation has a ramp leading to a central door of a flat-roofed modern extension, with a single window at the first floor of the whinstone section. The west elevation features a blank wall due to the flat-roofed modern extension on the outer right, with two single windows at the ground floor and one single window at the first floor in the whinstone section. There is also a single window at the first floor of the piended section, alongside another blank elevation from the flat-roofed modern extension.

The east elevation has a blank section on the outer right and a modern metal and glass door leading to a recessed area on the right, flanked by metal and glass glazing. There are bipartite windows at both the ground and first floors in the recessed whinstone section to the left, as well as a single window at the centre ground and additional single windows at the ground and first floors to the outer left. Some windows at the ground in the centre and outer right have been infilled, while there is a blank elevation from a flat-roofed harled extension on the outer left.

The building features plate glass timber sash and case windows and grey slate piended roofs at the rear, with various coped and corniced wallhead stacks and corniced cans.

Inside, the bank has modern commercial fittings. The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of coped stugged sandstone, forming vehicular entrances on the outer left and right, with a glass display within the boundary entrance on the outer left.