Bank Of Scotland, 1-3 East Port, Dunfermline

The Bank of Scotland, at 1-3 East Port, Dunfermline, was built in 1911-12 by James T Scobie. It is a three-storey and attic, basemented, rectangular commercial building set on a terraced site, with an angled corner bay marking the junction of East Port and New Row. The design is Edwardian Baroque, characterized by prominent keyblocks and decorative detailing.

The principal (north and west) elevations are of polished sandstone ashlar, while the basement to New Row is of coursed rockfaced granite and the remaining elevations are of red brick. A granite ashlar base course is present at ground floor to New Row, with a cill course to both principal elevations, a band course above ground floor, a frieze above the second floor, and a mutuled eaves cornice. The building features round-arched windows to the ground floor, windows with radiating keyblocks and aprons to the first floor, and architraved windows with rectangular keyblocks and bracketed sills to the second floor, with boxed dormers in the attic.

The north (East Port) elevation has three bays, plus the angled corner bay. The outer left and right entrances (to the angled bay) are architraved; the left entrance has a cornice and fanlight with a radiating keyblock above a two-leaf panelled timber door. The angled bay's entrance features rusticated sides, a mutuled cornice, a fanlight with concave reveals, flanked by swags, a flat bracketed hood, and wrought-iron gates leading to a late 20th-century glazed doorcase. The first-floor window is set within an aedicule with engaged rustication and a semicircular broken-base mutuled pediment, bearing the inscription "AD 1912". A projecting panel sits above the cill of the second-floor window. The wallhead features a short section of pediment with a cartouche at the centre bearing the Scottish coat of arms and a cornucopia, flanked by concave sides each with a festoon and terminating in pilasters with pendant garlands and scrolls. The ground floor between the entrances is punctuated by two windows with a garlanded oval panel to the left. Pilaster strips divide the first and second-floor bays, with more prominent pilasters at the outer left and right of the three bays; each bay possesses a window to the upper floors, inclusive of the attic.

The west (New Row) elevation has four bays, with the angled corner bay appearing identical to its presentation on the north elevation. The elevation is uniform across each floor, with a single window in each bay, except in the basement. Pilaster strips divide the first and second-floor bays. Two small window openings are visible on the right of the basement; the second pair from the left are blocked.

The windows are timber framed with 3-pane glazing to the ground floor, and 2-pane timber sash and case windows to the first and second floors. A grey slate platform roof is present, along with corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with friezes to the south and east, a central stack, and round cans.

The interior includes an elaborate, classically designed, panelled plaster ceiling to the main ground floor room. A staircase with a wrought-iron balustrade and tiled dado is located within No. 3 East Port.