British Linen Bank, 25 Olrig Street, Thurso

J M Dick Peddie, Edinburgh, 1897. Imposing 2-storey and

attic, wide 4-bay bank with polished ashlar SW street

frontage ashlar NW gable with slightly lower continuous

2-storey, 2-bay rear wing, rubble SE gable and rear, polished

ashlar dressings. Street facade has narrow paired centre

bays with round-headed entrance and flanking round-headed

window both with decorative fanlights; paired centre

windows in 1st floor and in tall, shaped and finialled centre

gable, with relief carving of Britannia in apex. Wide outer

bays with transom and mullion windows in both floors.

Giant panelled pilaster strips with Ionic capitals

define bays terminating in high coped parapet. Moulded

cill, lintel and gable cornices; decorative band course to

gable. Parapet continues across SE gable as corbelled and

corniced band course, embracing centre upper 1st floor

window with segmental headed pediment, moulded jambs

and bracketed cill, flanked by single transomed windows in

1st floor outer bays.

Entrance to manager's house in NW gable; some 2-pane glazing;

small modern box dormer in front elevation; original

pedimented dormer to rear; corniced end ridge stacks; slate

roof.