Royal Bank Of Scotland, 1, 3 Victoria Street, Stromness

Dated 1864 with later alterations. 3-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical Scots Jacobean-style bank with corbelled crowstepped gable to left and finialled gablets to right. Stugged and snecked red sandstone ashlar with polished cream ashlar dressings. Base course; string course, continuous as stepped hood-moulds over ground floor openings; eaves course. Chamfered reveals to openings; stone mullions to bipartites; crowstepped gables to N and S; long and short margins to windows; long and short quoins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: shouldered-arched doorpiece at ground in bay to left; modern timber door with fanlight; modern, part-glazed timber panelled door with fanlight behind; bipartite window at each floor above; recessed segmental-arched date panel to finialled gablehead above. Bipartite window (lower right light converted as cash dispenser) at ground in bay to centre; single window at 1st floor; single thistle-finialled dormer window, breaking eaves, at 2nd floor above; blank armorial panel to gablehead. Shouldered-arched doorpiece at ground in bay to right; blank armorial panel below hood mould; modern timber door and fanlight; identical arrangement to central bay above.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled elevation. Window at ground with window at 1st floor in bay to right. Window at ground in bay to right. Small, round-arched recess to finialled, gablehead above.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: predominantly blank, with small round-arched recess below gablehead stack.

2- and 6-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; ashlar skews; Cavetto- and block-moulded skewputts; coped ashlar gablehead stack to N; decorative cast-iron rainwater goods with thistle-leafbrackets and dated (1898) hoppers.

INTERIOR: converted as modern bank; timber-panelled window recesses remain; decorative thistle cornices remain in main reception hall.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low squared and snecked rubble walls with flat ashlar copes along E front of bank, (probably later).