Clydesdale Bank, 28 Bridge Street, Wick

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 28 Bridge Street in Wick, was built in 1865 by architect J Russell Mackenzie. This three-storey, four-bay banking palazzo is designed in the Venetian Renaissance style. The exterior features stugged ashlar with polished granite shafts on the ground floor, while the flanks are constructed from rubble.

On the ground floor, there are four round-headed openings supported by squat foliated capitals, with rusticated outer pilasters. The spandrels above these openings display heads of historic figures. String courses run between the storeys. The first floor has four round-arched windows, each adorned with ribbon-moulding around the arched window heads and supported on shafts. Decorative elements in the spandrels include leeks, thistles, roses, shamrocks, and ears of corn.

A cornice on the first floor serves as a cill course for the paired round-arched windows on the second floor, which also feature roundels in their spandrels. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice and has a slate roof.