Bank House, 19 Bank Street, Wigtown

Mid 19th century. 2-storey and basement house with classical details, main 3-bay elevation to S, with gable ends to E and W. N wing 2-storey with piended roof. Single-storey porch/former bank office to NW.

S ELEVATION: polished sandstone with banded base courses, rusticated quoins (raised flat architraves, windows with cornice and aprons to ground). Sash and case windows with plate glass glazing. Band course to 1st floor cills, eaves band, eaves cornice. Sandstone skews, corniced end stacks some octagonal cans, slate roofs with modern rooflights. Steps to central porch with square pillars supporting cornice and block pediment. Panelled door with fanlight. Flanks and rear rubble with rusticated quoins, 2-storey irregularly fenestrated N wing, roof platform with sandstone balustrade and stacks at angles. Single storey extension to NW with door, masonry as above with deep coped rubble parapet. Corniced architraved and lugged doorway, double-leaf panelled doors. Bipartite window to left with bracketted cill (now modern door). INTERIOR: good plaster cornices, panelled doors and shutters, stair with good cast-iron balusters. Tall couped rubble garden wall surrounds house. To SE and NE angles 2 single storey square rubble garden pavilions with rusticated quoins and arched sandstone-margined windows. House to NE with slated pyramidal roof, that to SE currently (1987) roofless. Centre of S wall pair of tall coped rusticated gatepiers and cast-iron gates. To N wall pair of smaller coped rusticated gatepiers and cast-iron gates.