Bank Of Scotland, 97 Victoria Street, Stromness

The Bank of Scotland, located at 97 Victoria Street in Stromness, was designed by William Henderson in 1871. This two-storey building with an attic features a five-bay Italianate style and has a symmetrical rectangular plan. It is constructed from bull-faced cream sandstone ashlar, accented with polished red sandstone dressings. The design includes a base course, an eaves course with a cornice, and a coped blocking course. The ground floor windows have shouldered margins and aproned cills, while the first-floor windows have plain margins and consoled cills. The building also features long and short quoins.

On the principal elevation, there is a pilastered and corniced doorpiece with a shallow block pediment at the center on the ground floor. This includes a two-leaf timber panelled door topped with a two-pane rectangular fanlight, with a window above on the first floor. Each of the flanking bays has a window on both floors, although the outer right bay contains a cash machine in the window. Above, there are three evenly spaced box dormers.

The north side elevation presents a three-bay gabled design, featuring two closely set windows at the ground level and two more above on the first floor. There is a blocked window in the right bay at ground level, and a multi-flue gablehead stack rises above.

The building has four- and three-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with asbestos felt on the dormers, and cream ashlar corniced gablehead stacks. The cast-iron rainwater goods are adorned with decorative brackets and hoppers.

Inside, modern bank fittings are present on the ground floor, while the first floor has not been seen.