Clydesdale Bank, 158 Nethergate, Dundee

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 158 Nethergate in Dundee, is a building attributed to Samuel Bell and was constructed in 1790. It is a two-storey structure with a basement and an attic at the rear, featuring a three-bay classical design along with single-storey and basement single-bay pavilion wings. The exterior is made of squared cherry-cocked sandstone with ashlar dressings, coursers on the wings, and random rubble on the sides and rear. The roof is grey slate with a piended design on the wings.

Architectural details include a band course at the ground floor and an eaves course, with margined windows. The front and top floor at the rear have 24-pane bowed timber sash and case frames, while other windows are multi-pane. The rear features piended dormers with modern frames that are not in character with the original design. The front elevation has rusticated quoins, margined angles at the rear, and ashlar-coped skews with skewblocks. The main house has corniced and margined gable stacks, while the wings have wallhead stacks.

On the front elevation, there is a central door with a fanlight and an engaged-columned Ionic doorpiece, which is accessed by steps that oversail the basement and are lined with plain wrought-iron railings. There are windows to the left and right of the door, three windows on the first floor, and a blocked window in the roofspace at the gables, along with a window in the slightly recessed wings.

The rear elevation features three square windows and a door formed from a window at the basement level, four tall windows on the principal floor, four windows on the first floor, and three dormers. There is a blocked window at the return gables on the principal floor level, as well as a door and a basement and ground floor window in the recessed wings.

The interior has been altered at the banking floor. The property is enclosed by low boundary walls at the front with cast- and wrought-iron railings and gates. There is a stout buttressed wall to the east, which was formerly part of the Town Hospital, and a rubble-built wall to the west. The site also includes a garden terrace and a former sea wall to the south.