40-42 Victoria Street (former Royal Bank of Scotland), Newton Stewart

A three-storey former bank building in the Baronial style, dated 1873. The main elevation to Victoria Street is asymmetrical with the second bay from the left slightly advanced and rising to a crowstepped gable. The roofs are slated with crowstepped gables to the ends and rear and tall corniced end and axial stacks. The walling is ashlar red sandstone with cream sandstone dressings, quoins and band courses.

The end bays have entrances at ground-floor level in cream sandstone surrounds. The entrance to the south is surmounted by a gablet and has a double-leaf panelled door. The one to the north has a consoled balcony above and contains a panelled door with a fanlight.

The window openings are either single light or bipartite, with timber sash and case units and plain plate glass glazing. The second-floor windows have gablet dormers with shield motifs and finials and there is a stepped and moulded string course over the first floor.