Royal Bank Of Scotland Buildings, 19 Union Street, Inverness

The Royal Bank of Scotland Buildings, located at 19 Union Street in Inverness, were designed by W L Carruthers and constructed between 1901 and 1902. This building showcases a Free Renaissance style, featuring Moray freestone ashlar with a base made of Aberdeen grey granite and a channelled ground floor.

The structure has three storeys and an attic, with the Union Street facade consisting of five bays, where the central three bays are slightly recessed. On the ground floor, the central windows are round arched and keyblocked, set back behind engaged columns with polished granite shafts. The end bays feature doorways with lugged architraves and segmental pediments.

On the first floor, the windows are segmental-arched, mullioned, and transomed, adorned with heavily rusticated lugged architraves. The second floor has bipartite windows that are recessed behind columns and pier mullions. The attic includes three segmental-headed wallhead dormer gablets, with the central gablet being higher and featuring a tripartite window topped by an oculus, while the outer gablets have bipartite windows.

The Drummond Street elevation has a similar ten-bay front to that of Union Street, but it includes modern shopfronts at Nos 3, 7, and 9, with all gablets matching the design of the central gablet on Union Street. The building is topped with a bracketted cornice and a mansard roof covered in green Westmoreland slates. Inside, the bank features a coffered ceiling.