Bank Of Scotland, High Street, Cromarty

The Bank of Scotland in Cromarty, designed by A & W Reid in 1876, is a classical building featuring two storeys and three bays, with a central door set in a slightly advanced pedimented middle bay. The structure is constructed from coursed, dressed rubble with polished ashlar dressings and has rusticated quoins. The entrance is semi-circular headed, adorned with a moulded keyblocked architrave. The ground floor has tripartite windows, while the first-floor windows are linked by a cill band, which, along with an eaves band, returns onto the gable ends. The building is topped with a cornice and blocking course, and it has a slate roof. Surrounding the property is a low coped wall with cast-iron railings, as well as high rubble garden walls featuring stone coping and rubble gate piers with pyramidal copes to the left.