Royal Bank Of Scotland, 67-69 High Street, Irvine

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 67-69 High Street in Irvine, is a bank building designed by Peddie and Kinnear and dated 1856. It is a three-storey, three-bay structure built in the Italianate palazzo style, featuring ashlar sandstone. The building has a base course and round-arched openings on the first and second floors, which are adorned with carved spandrel panels. There is a dividing cornice and a cill band, a guilloche frieze at the entablature, and dentils along with a modillioned eaves cornice. The corners of the building are highlighted with panelled and rusticated quoins, and the openings are framed with architraves.

On the High Street elevation, the central bay features a tripartite arcade, with the central arch blocked for a cash machine and windows on either side. To the left, there is a doorway with a semicircular fanlight and a heraldic panel above, both framed by pilasters and console cornices, with carved spandrels and a paterae frieze. The first floor has a corniced tripartite window arcade in the center, flanked by single windows that share similar detailing. The second floor windows are grouped like those below but are smaller and have shouldered brackets for their cills.

The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows and is topped with a piended roof covered in grey slates. Corniced ashlar wallhead stacks are located on the sides of the building. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.