North Of Scotland Bank, 65 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

The North of Scotland Bank, located at 65 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, was built around 1840 and later remodelled with the addition of a top floor and attic by L H Ross around 1928 and 1947. The building features Renaissance architectural details and consists of four storeys plus an attic. It has five bays facing St Vincent Street and seven bays on West Nile Street, with a shop front at No 28.

The exterior is constructed of ashlar stone, with a channelled ground floor. The entrance on St Vincent Street is marked by a distyle in antis Roman Doric doorpiece. On the first floor, there is a distyle in antis Greek Ionic tripartite window above the entry, along with shouldered architraved windows that have consoled cornices. The second floor features shouldered and lugged architraved, corniced windows, a sculpted guilloche frieze, a dentil band, and a mutule cornice with a monogrammed cartouche (NSB) at the northwest corner. The attic showcases banded masonry and blocked architraves around wide windows. The building is topped with a slate mansard roof that includes segmental pedimented dormers.