Royal Bank Of Scotland, 11 And 12 Market Square, Duns

The Royal Bank of Scotland, located at 11 and 12 Market Square in Duns, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and completed in 1857. This impressive three-storey, five-bay Italianate bank features a former manager's house above. The building is constructed of polished cream ashlar sandstone, with rubble on the secondary elevations.

The principal elevations on the south and west sides consist of three corniced storeys, with the cornice of one floor serving as the cill course of the next. The ground floor has a base course and cill course, adorned with a scrolled foliate frieze. The first floor showcases a guilloche frieze, while the second floor features a panelled frieze and overhanging bracketed timber eaves. The building is accentuated by long and short rusticated quoins, moulded architraves, and distinctive windows: ground floor windows are basket-arched with lugged architraves and rope-moulded arrises; first floor windows are round-headed with architraves connected to the cornice by foliate decoration; and the second floor attic windows are shouldered.

On the south elevation facing Market Square, all bays on every floor contain windows. The central entrance features a panelled door with a large rectangular fanlight, framed by an architrave similar to the windows. The doorpiece includes disked pilaster panels and a consoled cornice adorned with ten small acroteria. The initials "PK" are carved on the top left quoin. To the right, there is a doorway providing access to the upper floors, featuring a two-leaf panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, moulded lugged architrave, and roll-moulded arrises.

The west elevation also facing Market Square has a broad single bay with a window at the centre of each floor and an additional window to the left on the ground floor. The date "1857" is carved on the top right quoin.

The east elevation is a blank rubble wall with a projecting stair at the ground level and a round-headed staircase window above. Quoins are present to the left, and the eaves match those of the other elevations.

The rear elevation is a plain, irregular five-bay façade with bracketed eaves that wrap around the corners. The inscription "D & W DUNS, BUILDERS" is carved under the eaves on the right side.

The building features four-pane timber sash and case windows, with multi-pane windows at the rear. It has a piend and platform roof covered in grey slates, corniced ashlar wallhead stacks, and cast-iron drainpipes located only at the rear.

The interior has been modernised on the ground floor, while the upper floors have not been seen since 1994.