Royal Bank Of Scotland, 5 Castle Street, Dundee

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 5 Castle Street in Dundee, was designed by George Washington Browne and completed in 1899. This four-storey bank is built in a Renaissance palazzo style and is situated on a sloping site. The exterior features pinkish sandstone ashlar, with a channelled ground floor and a concealed roof. The building has a base course and a corniced cushion-mould course at the first floor. The corniced entablature includes architraved oculi with sculpted relief panels on the High Street elevation, a dentilled and corbelled cornice, and a balustraded parapet topped with obelisk-finialled dies.

The windows are two-pane timber sash and case types, with corniced and architraved windows on the ground floor. The first floor has cross-windows with shouldered architraves and open pediments, while the second floor features tripartite round-headed windows. The first and second floor windows are set within recessed two-storey round-headed panels, supported by giant fluted Ionic pilasters on the High Street elevation.

On the High Street elevation, the building has a four-bay design, with a central door to the right featuring a keystoned round-headed Renaissance doorcase, a fanlight, splayed reveals, and pilasters. To the right is a smaller door with a corniced doorcase, and to the left are two windows that have been altered from the original shopfront. The first and second floors have four windows in recessed panels, as previously described, along with four oculi in the entablature at the third floor.

The Castle Street elevation has a five-bay design, featuring a corniced tripartite shopfront on the left that has been modified with recessed modern windows. Above are three small windows, and a tripartite doorpiece has been blocked as a window to the right. The three central bays on the upper floors are slightly advanced, with windows in recessed panels on the first and second floors, and three oculi in the entablature at the third floor. There is a cross window to the left and a transomed window to the right on the first floor, with a bipartite window to the left and a single window to the right on the second floor, along with oculi above.

Inside, the bank features a glass-domed banking hall.