Bank, 52, 54 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries

Probably James Thomson of Glasgow, 1892. Large Italianate

bank. 3 storeys over basement. Symmetrical 5-bay main

elevation to Buccleuch Street with advanced and taller

central bay with granite-columned and balustraded porch,

windows above (canted at 1st, recessed at 2nd floor)

with flanking columns; attic stage above main cornice. 4

bays, the left advanced and with canted window, to Irish

Street. Built of red ashlar, rusticated at ground and

with vermiculated dressings and console keystones to

round-arched windows; architraved windows above, with

consoled cornices at 1st floor. Strings, band and cill

courses between floors, frieze with rosettes; cornice;

roof concealed by balustraded parapet. Set behind good

cast-iron balustrade with red ashlar piers.

Interior: suspended ceiling in modernised banking hall

encasing upper part of columns.