Bank Of Scotland, 16-18 Bridge Street, Wick

The Bank of Scotland, located at 16-18 Bridge Street in Wick, was built in 1935 by architects John Keppie and Henderson from Glasgow, as a reconstruction of earlier premises. This three-storey building features an asymmetrical five-bay facade made of polished ashlar. The extreme southern bay at the back aligns with the adjoining Parish Church and includes a secondary entrance on the ground floor, which is topped by a two-light, segmental-headed fanlight.

The main entrance is off-centre and has a carved British Linen Bank crest above it. There is a canted oriel window that rises through two storeys, featuring a mullioned and transomed window on the first floor, along with a stepped stack in the re-entrant angle to the left. To the right of the main entrance, there are three near-symmetrical bays that include three large ground floor windows, which light the banking hall, framed by reeded pilaster jambs and a moulded architrave beneath a continuous fascia band. The first floor has three transomed windows, while the second floor features three windows with carved flattened ogee heads and decorative bas-relief finials, all linked by a string course. The building has two- and four-pane glazing, and an irregularly stepped coped parapet that masks the roof. Additionally, there is a crowstepped harled gable and a gable stack facing Miller Lane.