Clydesdale Bank, 7 Gilmour Street, Paisley

The Clydesdale Bank, located at 7 Gilmour Street in Paisley, was designed by architects Craig Barr and Cook around 1910 in the Beaux Arts style. This four-storey building features a Renaissance design with four bays, where the outer bays are set slightly forward.

Constructed of ashlar, the ground floor includes doors to the outer bays that are adorned with carved architraves, friezes, and consoled cornices. The central windows are framed with cavetto designs in channeled ashlar. Flanking the doors are pairs of giant fluted Ionic pilasters that rise to the full height of the building, framing the windows of the outer bays, all of which feature 15-pane sash windows. The centre windows are also architraved. The second and third floor windows of the outer bays have keystones that interrupt the architrave of the central entablature. A frieze with consoled elements is positioned over the outer bays, and there is a modillioned eaves cornice above all, which is slightly canted towards the outer bays.