Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1 Victoria Street, Kirkwall

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 1 Victoria Street in Kirkwall, is a bank building designed by Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson in 1938. This two-storey structure with an attic and basement features a five-bay rectangular plan and is built on a raised platform. The design includes paired doorways in the outer bays and box dormers. The exterior is made of squared and coursed rubble with polished sandstone ashlar dressings, and it has an eaves cornice with long and short margins around the openings. The entrance is accessed by ashlar steps and a platform that oversails the basement, with long and short quoins at the corners.

On the principal elevation, there are windows on each floor in three central bays. The ground floor features a moulded architraved and corniced doorway in the outer right and left bays, with a modern door in the left bay and a cash point machine in the right bay. A window is located at the first floor, and there are two evenly spaced dormers above.

The north side elevation has a window at both the ground and first floors, offset to the left of the centre, with an attic window to the left of the gable and a gablehead stack above. The building has timber framed windows at the ground level, two-pane timber sash and case windows at the first floor, and small-pane timber sash and case dormer windows. There is also a central small rooflight on the east pitch. The roof is covered with grey slate and features a stone ridge, with rubble corniced gablehead stacks on the north and south sides. The rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron with decorative polygonal hoppers.

The interior is a modern bank space at the ground level, with the upper floors being unseen and updated in 1998. The property is enclosed by boundary walls and railings, consisting of a low coped wall topped with cast-iron railings, and square-plan gatepiers leading to the steps, which have simple squared caps.