Bank Of Scotland, 3-7 Channel Street, Galashiels

The Bank of Scotland, located at 3-7 Channel Street in Galashiels, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1864. This three-storey, three-bay building features a rectangular plan and is styled as a symmetrical classical palazzo. The front and sides are constructed from squared whinstone, while the rear is made of whin rubble, with ashlar sandstone dressings throughout. The building includes a base course, sill course, and a moulded eaves band course. The ground floor has segmental-headed openings with chamfered surrounds, and there are flat-roofed extensions at the rear.

On the front (southwest) elevation, there is a central door that is consoled and canopied. Flanking this door are bipartite windows beside a single central opening on each floor. The building has recessed extensions on either side; the left side features an ashlar single-storey extension, while the right side has a whinstone extension with a fully-glazed upper floor and a piended roof.

The windows are primarily 4-pane timber sash and case, with plate-glass fixed lights on the ground floor and multi-pane windows at the rear. The roof is a shallow-pitch piended slate roof, with rendered shouldered and corniced wall-head stacks. Decorative cast iron rainwater goods with brackets complement the moulded gutter.

Inside, the bank has been largely modernised, but it retains a timber stair with cast iron balusters leading to the upper level, along with some original joinery and decorative plaster cornices.