Bank Of Scotland, 1-3 Galvelmore Street, Crieff

The Bank of Scotland, located at 1-3 Galvelmore Street, Crieff, dates to around 1840 and is a baronial-style bank situated on a corner site with a steep slope to the northwest and southwest. The building comprises a two-storey and attic, three-bay corner bank, a single-storey wing, and an attached former bank house. It is constructed of stugged squared and snecked rubble with contrasting raised ashlar quoins and margins. A base course, string courses, and eaves cornice are present.

The northeast (entrance) elevation features a slightly set-back rounded corner to the left, with a hoodmoulded, deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door and a deep plate glass fanlight above. A hoodmoulded stone mullion bipartite window is situated above the door, transitioning to a smaller window with a crowstepped pediment and an attenuated conical roof topped with a decorative cast-iron finial. Regular fenestration is present in the remaining bays; the central bay features a corbelled stack in a crowstepped gable, and the right bay has a timber-pedimented, finialled dormer. A single-storey wing extends to the outer right with a small bipartite window to the left and a further window to the right.

The southeast (Galvelmore Street) elevation is four bays wide with regular fenestration to both the ground and first floors. A bay to the right features a stone, jettied gablehead to the attic with a small window, and three timber dormers (as described above) are present to the left.

The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slates, with coped ashlar stacks including cans, ashlar-coped skews, and beak skewputts. The interior houses a modern banking hall, retaining some decorative cornices and a screen door.

Adjacent to the bank is a two-storey and attic, two-bay crowstepped former bank house with a dividing course and a roll-moulded doorpiece. Its southeast (Galvelmore Street) elevation includes a broad, gabled bay to the left with a cash machine below, replacing a former window; a further window is above, and a small window is in the gablehead. A slightly set-back, narrow bay to the right has steps leading to a deep-set panelled timber door and a plate glass fanlight, with a window above capped by a crowstepped pediment. A later harled bay is set back to the outer left. This house also has timber sash and case windows with four-pane and plate glass glazing patterns, grey slates, a coped ashlar stack with polygonal cans, and ashlar-coped skews and beak skewputts. Boundary walls constructed of semicircular-coped rubble enclose the site.